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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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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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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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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
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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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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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