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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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Arkon Daraul
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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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 can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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