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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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 learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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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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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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