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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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Collector Of Fairy Tales
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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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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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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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 chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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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 learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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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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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 can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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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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