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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
Humans
Anywhere
Service
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Path
Found
Human

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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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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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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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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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 sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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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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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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