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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Collector Of Fairy Tales
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Simla
Arkon Daraul
Sufis
Sufism
Sufi
Complete
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Something
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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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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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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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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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