A Perfumed Scorpion
Idries Shah
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.”
“There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.”
“When you observe that today's controversies often reveal not relevance but the clash of the untaught with the wrongly taught, and when you can endure this knowledge without cynicism, as a lover of humankind, greater compensations will be open to you than a sense of your own importance or satisfaction in thinking about the unreliability of others.”
“The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is.”
“Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.”
“It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.”
“Whoever might perfume a scorpion Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband”
“The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development.”
“The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.”
“Patience is the food of understanding.”
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