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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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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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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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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 chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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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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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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