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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

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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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Arkon Daraul
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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 generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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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 Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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