Idries Shah

"It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere."

"The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it."

"When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'."

"You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous."

"Until you can understand illogicality, and the meaningfulness of it, shun the Sufis except for limited, precise, self-evident services."

"A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals."

"Words have to die if humans are to live."

"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."

"THE HEAVENSTo the mallet of the Highest MindThe heavens are the smallest possible ball.(Akhlaq-I-Mohsini)."

"From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins."

"If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion."

"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."