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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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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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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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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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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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