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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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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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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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