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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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 Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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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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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 chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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