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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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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."

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"Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood."

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"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."

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"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."

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"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

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"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."

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"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"

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"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."

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"Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined."

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"Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward."

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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
"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
"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."

Psychology

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Idries Shah
"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."

Life

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Idries Shah
"It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere."

Knowledge

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"Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought."

Wisdom

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"To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves."

Freedom

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"If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge."

Philosophy

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