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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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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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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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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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