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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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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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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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