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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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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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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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