Wisdom Quote by Idries Shah — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In a village where everyone has only one leg, the biped will hop about more lamely than anyone else, if he knows what is good for him.”

“The spirit is the mirror; the body is the rust.”

“The mine is always bigger than the gem.”

“One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...”

“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:”

“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza”

“When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.”

“But if you believe yourself worthy of the thing you fought so hard to get, then you become an instrument of God, you help the Soul of the World, and you understand why you are here.”

“A meaningful life is built from the questions we refuse to stop asking.”

“He’d dive deeper and deeper into the calming depths of the sea, safe from the storms on the surface. And when he found himself coming up for air to interact with an unbalanced person who was stuck in the methodical illusion of the game, it would be his wealth of knowledge instead of his wealth of coin that would allow him to act like a cruise liner upon the surface of the sea, too immense for waves to agitate.”

“I can’t lie to you and tell you that standing in front of someone and offering them your soul and having them reject you is not gonna be one of the worst things that ever happens to you. You will wonder for days or weeks or months or years afterward what it is about you that was so wrong or broken or ugly that they couldn’t love you the way you loved them. You will look for all the reasons inside yourself that they didn’t want you and you will find a million.”