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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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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 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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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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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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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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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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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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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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