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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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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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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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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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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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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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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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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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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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