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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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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 chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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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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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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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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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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