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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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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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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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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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 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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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 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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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