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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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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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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 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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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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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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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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