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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.

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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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 sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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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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