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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Idries Shah
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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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Arkon Daraul
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
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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 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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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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 word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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 impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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