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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?

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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
Teacher
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Arkon Daraul
Shade
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Sun
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Teens
People
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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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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