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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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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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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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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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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.
Idries Shah
If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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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.
Idries Shah
To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
Idries Shah
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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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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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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.
Idries Shah
You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
Idries Shah
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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