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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.
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
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Arkon Daraul
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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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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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
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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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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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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.
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You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
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The impatient man is his own enemy he slams the door on his own progress.
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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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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 Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
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The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
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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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Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
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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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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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