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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

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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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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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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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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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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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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 you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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