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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
Idries Shah
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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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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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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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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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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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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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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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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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 learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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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 only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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