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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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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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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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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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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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