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Idries Shah Inspirational Quotes (61)
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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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