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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
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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 laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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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 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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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