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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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Collector Of Fairy Tales
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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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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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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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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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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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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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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