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Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

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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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The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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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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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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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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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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Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
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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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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for 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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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths – outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone.
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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 laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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