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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
Advice
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Preposterous
Interference
Priceless

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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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