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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

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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 Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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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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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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