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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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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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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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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 the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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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 learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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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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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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