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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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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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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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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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 Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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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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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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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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