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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.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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 can turn a murderer into a mere thief, you are making progress.
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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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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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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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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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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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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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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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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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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.
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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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