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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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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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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 secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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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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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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