Author | Idries Shah |
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Language | English |
Genre | Eastern philosophy and culture. Sufism. Psychology. |
Published | 1968 |
Publisher | Zenith Books |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | |
Pages | 104pp |
ISBN | 978-0-900860-00-3 |
OCLC | 29632 |
Preceded by | Caravan of Dreams |
Followed by | The Way of the Sufi |
Reflections by Idries Shah is a collection of eighty fables, aphorisms, and statements that seek to challenge the conditioned mind. The book intends to confront the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are.[1] As the book's foreword states, "Do you imagine that fables exist only to amuse or to instruct, and are based upon fiction? The best ones are delineations of what happens in real life, in the community and in the individual's mental processes."[2]