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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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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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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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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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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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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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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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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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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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