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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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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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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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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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