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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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Arkon Daraul
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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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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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 you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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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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