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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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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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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