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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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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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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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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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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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