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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
Age
Incapacity
Rehearsal
Adolescence
Laziness

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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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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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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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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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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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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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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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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 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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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