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Idries Shah

"Our heads are filled with 'knowledge', a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all."

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Amber Hurdle

"The truth is that few know the truth."

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"I know a lot of stuff, not only about you, about me (of course) and many other people.... "So how I don't know??" you ask yourself??You never asked me and even you asked me you never understood me. You just said "Okay"... and that's all."

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Amber Hurdle

"You have this and this, soon it will come and this and you are still at this level of knowledge... so poor for you!"

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Amber Hurdle

"If I know the end of a book or a film I want to know why it happen..."

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Amber Hurdle

"The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Books can kill you, while you are reading."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am reading Henry James, and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber."

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"My favorite words in the world are these: in conjunction.They question curiosities in simple form and function. is a query of broadest scope. is wonder that fuels all hope.Together they lasso the mind like rope, and spur the wildest deductions!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

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"The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity."

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Idries Shah
"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."
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"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"
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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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"Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes."
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Idries Shah
"If wine is the enemy of religion, I shall devour the enemy of religion."
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Idries Shah
"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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Idries Shah
"BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL."
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"One should not pray if that prayer is vanity."
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"The impatient man is his own enemy, he slams the door on his own progress."
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"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."
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