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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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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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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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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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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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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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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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