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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
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
Priceless
Advice
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Preposterous
Interference

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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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 learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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