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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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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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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 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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain 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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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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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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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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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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