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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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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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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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