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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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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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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 chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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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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