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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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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 a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.
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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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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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