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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
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Simla
Arkon Daraul
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Stills
Ass
Still
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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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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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 secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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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 laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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 Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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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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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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