Ranelagh, E.L. (1979). The Past we Share. London, Melbourne, New York: Quartet Books Ltd. p. 165. ISBN0-7043-2234-X. A cleric here could mean an educated layman as well as an ecclesiastic.
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Hardin, Shields Nancy (October 1977). "The Teaching Story and Doris Lessing". Twentieth Century Literature. 23: 314–25. doi:10.2307/441260. JSTOR441260.
from Learning from Stories, A lecture by Idries Shah before a live audience in 1976 available as audio to download at "Idries Shah Lectures Audio". Archived from the original on 2010-03-28. Retrieved 2010-03-21.. Accessed March 20, 2010.
Hardin, Shields Nancy (October 1977). "The Teaching Story and Doris Lessing". Twentieth Century Literature. 23: 314–25. doi:10.2307/441260. JSTOR441260.
On the Teaching Tales page in the misc. writing section of his website, Tahir Shah, son of Idries Shah writes: "More often than not my father would reject requests from people seeking a teacher. He would say: ‘that person only wants a guru’, or ‘this person can’t be taught, because he isn’t ready yet to learn’. Those whom he accepted were directed to Sufi teaching-stories and other writing by the great masters – among them Omar Khayyam, Jalaluddin Rumi, Hakim Sanai, El Ghazali and Saadi of Shiraz."
from Learning from Stories, A lecture by Idries Shah before a live audience in 1976 available as audio to download at "Idries Shah Lectures Audio". Archived from the original on 2010-03-28. Retrieved 2010-03-21.. Accessed March 20, 2010.
