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Idries Shah

"Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed."

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Assegid Habtewold

"If there were no women then men would still be living in the jungle."

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"Teaching the myth of creation to the students instead of teaching them the fact of evolution is nothing but an act of ultimate ignorance!"

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"We must stop expecting the government to play the role of national transformation why we sit down and watch."

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"This was my first time in Govan. You could smell and taste the thick smog in the air. The Blue Triangle was a new high-tech building, and it didn't look right standing there in front of older and more historical buildings. The Blue Triangle may have looked great from the outside, but once inside, to my horror, it was full of young teenage boys and girls full of deep and dark depression."

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"Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?... I don't know the answer, I know only that I can't."

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"If you think of your own mother to be the only true mother in the world and thereby start belittling people from other mothers as bastards, that makes you a bigot and a germ on the face of earth. This is an unhealthy bias, even though in your personal mental universe it may provide you extreme comfort. This is exactly what we see in the religious fundamentalists."

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"Genius tries to conquer the world with art, with songs, with words; stupid tries to conquer it with sword, with guns, with arrows!"

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"To create an enlightened society, be a beacon of light"

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"In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a somebody whenever he is in his own yard a man who is a nobody whenever he is in his employer's yard."

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"As a legacy, most world leaders leave huge amounts of money to their children and only few leave an honourable surname!"

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Idries Shah
"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"

Faith

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Idries Shah
"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."

Peace

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Idries Shah
"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."

Teaching

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Idries Shah
"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."

Mortality

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Idries Shah
"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."

Self-Awareness

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Idries Shah
"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."

Journey

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Idries Shah
"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."

Knowledge

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Idries Shah
"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."

Aging

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Idries Shah
"It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'."

Spiritual

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Idries Shah
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."

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