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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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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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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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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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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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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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