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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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Simla
Arkon Daraul
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Humans
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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 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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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