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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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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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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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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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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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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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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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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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