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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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Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
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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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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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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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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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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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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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