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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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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 sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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