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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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Simla
Arkon Daraul
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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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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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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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