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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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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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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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