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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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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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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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.
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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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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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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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