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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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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 secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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