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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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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 impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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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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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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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret 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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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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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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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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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.
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