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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
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
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Simla
Arkon Daraul
Priceless
Advice
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Interference

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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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 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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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