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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.

Idries Shah

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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
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Person
Humans
Heart
Penetrate
Never
Talks
Inner
Listening
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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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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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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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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