A Perfumed Scorpion Quotes

“Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“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.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“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'.”
― idries shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“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.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“The intellect is not sovereign: knowledge is.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“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'.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“The teacher is one who abandons ceremonial and religious display and social appearances, and concentrates on real development.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Knowledge gives nothing to a man until he gives everything to it.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Patience is the food of understanding.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Whoever might perfume a scorpion
Will not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“A Sufi has a right to be served, but he has no right to demand. Maruf Karkhi of Khorasan”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Now the fact is that social harmony and mental balance are essentials, just like food or other nutritions. But to glamorise these things and to distort their functions is to show lack of knowledge.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Ideologies exist only where there is no absolute knowledge. If you know something, you do not have to believe or disbelieve it....”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Lo que el autoimaginado místico busca sólo en su meditación, es visible para el Sufi en cada esquina y cada callejuela.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“What the self-imagined mystic seeks only in his meditation is visible to the Sufi on every street corner and in every alleyway”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“El maestro es uno que abandona el ceremonial, la exhibición religiosa y las apariencias sociales, y se concentra en el desarrollo real.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“El intelecto no es soberano: el conocimiento lo es.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“El mismo Rumi dijo una vez que únicamente se puede encontrar oro falso porque existe una cosa que es el oro real para ser copiado.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“El conocimiento no se puede alcanzar sino a través de la humildad.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“El conocimiento no da nada a un hombre hasta que él no se lo haya dado todo.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Un Sufi tiene derecho a ser servido, pero no tiene derecho a exigir.

Maruf Karkhi de Khorasan”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“El Sufi debe ser capaz de alternar su pensamiento entre lo relativo y lo Absoluto, lo aproximado y lo Real.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“La paciencia es el alimento de la comprensión.”
― Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way

“Quienquiera que perfume a un escorpión
no por ello escapará a su aguijonazo. Bahaudin Naqshband”
― Idries Shah, Un escorpión perfumado

“Él es un Maestro que puede enseñar sin que ello sea totalmente etiquetado como enseñanza; Él es un estudiante que puede aprender sin estar obsesionado con el aprendizaje.”
― Idries Shah, Un escorpión perfumado

“Por tanto el sufismo no es “Haz como digo y no como hago”, o incluso “Haz como hago”, sino “Experiméntalo y conocerás”.”
― Idries Shah, Un escorpión perfumado

“Existe la afirmación Sufi de que la verdad no se descubre o mantiene por la mera repetición de enseñanzas. Su comprensión sólo puede mantenerse mediante la continua experiencia de ella. Y es en la experiencia de la verdad donde los Sufis siempre han depositado su confianza. Por tanto el sufismo no es “Haz como digo y no como hago”, o incluso “Haz como hago”, sino “Experiméntalo y conocerás”.”
― Idries Shah, Un escorpión perfumado