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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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 you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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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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