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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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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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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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Dramatic. A well developed sense of the dramatic has values beyond what people usually imagine. One of these is to realise the limitations of a sense of the dramatic.
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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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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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