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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
Author
Collector Of Fairy Tales
Teacher
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
Path
Found
Human
Humans
Anywhere
Service
Except

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He that is purified by love is pure and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.
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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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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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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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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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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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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.
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If you can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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