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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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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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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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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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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