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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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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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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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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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