K T Shah Quotes

#1. The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

Idries Shah

#2. I don't really have much to prove. I can easily go in a comfort zone, make two films a year, hype them because I've signed them as a star, make them cheap and they will be big hits.

Shah Rukh Khan

#3. The people of the world have a fixed destiny. But the spiritually developed receive what is "not" in their destiny.

Idries Shah

#4. EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI
When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

Idries Shah

#5. Learn about hornets from those who have been stung by them.

Idries Shah

#6. The desert was bad, but nothing could compare with the horrors of a tropical rain forest.

Tahir Shah

#7. Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Tahir Shah

#8. A dried plant is nothing but a sign to plant a new one

Priyansh Shah

#9. You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Shah Rukh Khan

#10. Bombay is a city where gossip is treated as a commodity.

Tahir Shah

#11. BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

Idries Shah

#12. Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

Herman Melville

#13. The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

Idries Shah

#14. If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.

Idries Shah

#15. It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

Idries Shah

#16. Helping others
I order you to assist any oppressed person, whether he is a Moslem or not.

Idries Shah

#17. Two people can illustrate crudity to you.
The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.
The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.

Idries Shah

#18. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah

#19. In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.

Idries Shah

#20. But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Idries Shah

#21. Sufism is experiential

Idries Shah

#22. It is not far-fetched to draw a line from Operation Ajax through the Shah's repressive regime and the Islamic Revolution to the fireballs that engulfed the World Trade Center in New York.

Stephen Kinzer

#23. People used to play with toys.
Now the toys play with them.

Idries Shah

#24. At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

Tahir Shah

#25. Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.

Idries Shah

#26. It is stupid on my part to think of banning the media.

Shah Rukh Khan

#27. I'd rather sink trying to be different, than stay afloat like everyone else

Shah Rukh Khan

#28. If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Idries Shah

#29. Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.

Idries Shah

#30. No colour comes after black.

Idries Shah