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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
Teacher
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Simla
Arkon Daraul
Thoughts
Tomorrow
Comes
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Thinking

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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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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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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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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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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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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 want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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