One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets…
Quotes from Idries Shah
The Sufi is ‘One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.
Expectativa
Si de vez en cuando dejas a un lado la expectativa, serás capaz de percibir qué es lo que estás recibiendo.
Many things which are called ‘secrets’ are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.
Todo lo que entra en una mina de sal se convierte en sal.
Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.
Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.