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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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Arkon Daraul
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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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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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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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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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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