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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
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Think
Thinking
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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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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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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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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 learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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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 sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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