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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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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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