Idries Shah Quotes

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

We are each other's destiny.

Everything is interconnected. The moment you take philosophy, psychology, religion and business and look at the underlying commonalities, that's when you start looking at business in a different way.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

Things explain each other, not themselves.

We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

No man is an island, especially not Jughead.

However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation - to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our coworkers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.

We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.

The idea of absolute freedom is fiction. It's based on the idea of an independent self. But in fact, there's no such thing. There's no self without other people. There's no self without sunlight. There's no self without dew. And water. And bees to pollinate the food that we eat...So the idea of behaving in a way that doesn't acknowledge those reciprocal relationships is not really freedom, it's indulgence.

We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves.

Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.

In order to have influence, you have to be influenced.

Isolation is a blind alley....Nothing on the planet grows except by convergence.

We are interconnected.

You're all I care about," I said. "No. And me. The person I am when I'm with you, the way I see myself and know myself. That person who lives only when I'm with you.

But he knows that no man is an island.

Society is the product of relationship, of yours and mine together. If we change in our relationship, society changes.

When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.

I love the interrelatedness of things.

I am part of what she thinks is her illness, a symptom of which she thinks she has been cured. She, on the other hand, is what I was looking for.

There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

All life is a movement in relationship. There is no living thing on earth which is not related to something or other.

Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings.