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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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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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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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 Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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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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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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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 used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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