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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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 learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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