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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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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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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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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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