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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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Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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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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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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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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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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But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
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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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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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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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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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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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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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