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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the veils which have to be dissolved in the mind.
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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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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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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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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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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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