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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
Thoughts
Tomorrow
Comes
Think
Thinking

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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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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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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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 the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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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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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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