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?

In her review in The Observer, author Doris Lessing called Reflections "... a lively collection of fables, comments, aphorisms, its quality astringency.

"[3] The New York Times Book Review called it "... witty, tart and instructional – they tend to come into your mind at appropriate moments.