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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Collector Of Fairy Tales
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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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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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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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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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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