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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Idries Shah

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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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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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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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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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