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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
Learned
Persons
Person
Humans
Heart
Penetrate
Never
Talks
Inner
Listening

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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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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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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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