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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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 Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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 Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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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 the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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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 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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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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