Azlan Shah Quotes

On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust. ~ Tahir Shah

The ego of a god, the wit of a goldfish. ~ Shah Wharton

I am thrilled that DDLJ has beaten all records, Shah Rukh Khan and I share a close friendship that translates onto the screen. We have such fun working together. Shah Rukh has a great sense of humour. He invests incredible energy into his acting. He reads a lot. I share all these with him. I love books. I love his style of working and abundant refinement. I love him to death and would like to work with him again. ~ Kajol

Don't blindly follow someone, follow market and try to hear what it is telling you. ~ Jaymin Shah

I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.
If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all. ~ Idries Shah

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew. ~ Idries Shah

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul. ~ Idries Shah

Death
If he is a good man, death will be a release;
If he is a bad one, it will release others from him. ~ Idries Shah

A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence. ~ Idries Shah

If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress. ~ Idries Shah

Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same. ~ Idries Shah

Q: How can I help myself?
A: By remembering the proverb: 'The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service', from Saadi. ~ Idries Shah

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

When I think back on it, of course I got lucky and got great directors and good breaks but all that was the physical part. But what made me a star was that I could take a chance and not have anything to worry about in terms of losing. ~ Shah Rukh Khan

Sufism is education, in that it has a body of knowledge which it transmits to those who have not got it. ~ Idries Shah

Nobody has ever been and most certainly, never would be able to cut the wings of beliefs! Instead, they are nurtured for the needed flight that they give to our otherwise inert lives… ~ Trishala D. Shah

It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion. ~ Idries Shah

Shah Ismail had fallen victim to the rarely used, great Uzbek anti-Shiite potato and sturgeon curse, which required quantities of potatoes and caviar which were not easy to amass, and a unity of purpose among the Sunni witches which was likewise difficult to achieve. ~ Salman Rushdie

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language. ~ Idries Shah

For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news
as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home ~ Tahir Shah

Is your division of Understanding into Greater and Lesser common to all Sufis? Nothing which is put into words is common to all Sufis. ~ Idries Shah

Anger is a super weapon given by god...with a catch...the more you use it the less effective it becomes. ~ Ketan R Shah

Shah Rukh is not my girlfriend that I should remember him. When I don't remember my past girlfriends, what will I remember Shah Rukh for? ~ Salman Khan

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

Sometimes you just have to die a little inside in order to be reborn and rise again as a stronger and wiser version of you..!! ~ Aagam Shah

During the rule of the Shah, arrogance, aggression, territorial expansion at the expense of the Arabs and attempts to harm Iraq's national sovereignty and the rights of the Arab nation were a constant pattern. Iraq and the Arab nation were regarded as a sphere of influence for the expansionist plans of Iranian interests. That policy has been followed throughout history by the State of Persia against its neighbours to the west, and as we have shown. ~ Saddam Hussein

If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one – a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'. ~ Idries Shah

A man must be a Salomon before his magical ring will work ~ Idries Shah

But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'. ~ Idries Shah

Our objective is to achieve, by the understanding of the Origin, the Knowledge which comes through experience. ~ Idries Shah

All things change, and we change with them. ~ London Shah

Wander to the shores where souls are made whole. ~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth. ~ Idries Shah

Shah Jahan who proved
an emperor to be shorter than a lover,
who turned a grave into a temple
who gave his beloved a place of God
and converted love into a prayer. ~ Suman Pokhrel

... when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief. ~ Idries Shah

Acknowledging and being concious that you are being angry is a battle half won against anger. ~ Ketan R Shah

When the first contingents of U.S. troops were being sent to Saudi Arabia, in August of 1990, Corporal Jeff Patterson, a twenty-two-year-old Marine stationed in Hawaii, sat down on the runway of the airfield and refused to board a plane bound to Saudi Arabia. He asked to be discharged from the Marine Corps:
I have come to believe that there are no justified wars. . . . I began to question exactly what I was doing in the Marine Corps about the time I began to read about history. I began to read up on America's support for the murderous regimes of Guatemala, Iran, under the Shah, and El Salvador. . . . I object to the military use of force against any people, anywhere, any time. ~ Howard Zinn

Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together ~ Idries Shah

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real. ~ Idries Shah

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.
'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption. ~ Idries Shah

How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body? ~ Idries Shah

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life. ~ Idries Shah

Be loyal to your originality as you evolve toward a higher potential. ~ Shah Asad Rizvi

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.
'Why?' someone asked him.
'To squeeze out the rain. ~ Idries Shah

The more golden the opportunity, the less likely you will see it. ~ Murad S. Shah

Weapons systems the U.S. sold to the Shah of Iran wound up in the hands of Islamic militants who seized power there in 1979; a comparable scenario in Saudi Arabia is hardly impossible. ~ Stephen Kinzer

There's nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping. ~ Tahir Shah