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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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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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 impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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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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