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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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Arkon Daraul
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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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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