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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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 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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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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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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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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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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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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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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