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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
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Simla
Arkon Daraul
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Thinking
Thoughts
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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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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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