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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

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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
Sufism
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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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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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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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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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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