Reflections - Shah, Idries

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Résumé :
Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah's Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are. 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.'

Biographie:
Idries Shah spent much of his life collecting and publishing Sufi classical narratives and teaching stories from oral and written sources in the Middle East and Central Asia. The tales he retold especially for children are published by Hoopoe Books in beautifully illustrated editions and have been widely commended - by Western educators and psychologists, the U.S. Library of Congress, National Public Radio and other media - for their unique ability to foster social-emotional development, thinking skills and perception in children and adults alike. Told for centuries, these stories express universal themes from the cultures that produced them, showing how much we have in common and can learn from each other. As noted by reviewers, such stories are more than just entertaining; familiarity with them provokes flexibility of thought, since each one contains levels of meaning that unfold in accordance with an individual's experience and understanding.Idries Shah pas? gran parte de su vida recolectando narrativas cl?sicas suf?es e historias de ense?anza de fuentes orales y escritas en el Medio Oriente y Asia Central y public?ndolas en libros. Los 11 cuentos de este tipo que adapt? especialmente para ni?os han sido publicados por Hoopoe Books en ediciones bellamente ilustradas, y elogiadas por educadores y psic?logos occidentales, as? como por la Biblioteca del Congreso de EE. UU., National Public Radio y otros medios, por su capacidad ?nica de fomentar el desarrollo socioemocional, y la capacidad de pensamiento y percepci?n, tanto en ni?os como en adultos. Contadas durante siglos, estas historias expresan temas universales y ofrecen una representaci?n positiva de culturas importantes, pero a menudo incomprendidas, mostrando cu?nto tenemos en com?n y qu? podemos aprender unos de otros. Estos cuentos reconocen la individualidad y singularidad de un ni?o y fomentan un sentido de confianza, responsabilidad y prop?sito.