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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.

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
Teacher
Writer
Simla
Arkon Daraul
Master
None
Masters
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Cannot
Trusting
Option

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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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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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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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Effort makes some great men famous. Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
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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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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.
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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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Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
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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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