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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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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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