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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
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Collector Of Fairy Tales
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Arkon Daraul
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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