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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
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
People
Noticed
Shade
Curse
Healing
Sun
Walk
Walks
Many
Teens

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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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 only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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