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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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Arkon Daraul
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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 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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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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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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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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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 Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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