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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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