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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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Arkon Daraul
Preposterous
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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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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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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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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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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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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