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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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