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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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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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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
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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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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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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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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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The learned person who only talks will never Penetrate to the inner heart of humans.
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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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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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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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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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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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People today are in danger of drowning in information but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be. If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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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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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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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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