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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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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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A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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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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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
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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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Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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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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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 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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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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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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