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"Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained."
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"God has provided you with many avenues for obtaining wisdom and averting failure. Resist your inclination to accept advice with easy solutions and to reject help that requires a more difficult path."
"When people show you who they are, believe them."
"Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots."
"The challenges are illusions, but necessary ones to determine if you can see through them."
"Although each of us has the right to believe we are suffering, I suppose, there is a definite and ultimately essential distinction to be made between actual suffering, its cause and resolution, and invented or imagined suffering."
"If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself."
"The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect."
"I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes."
"I love to share my problems with friends. They think I'm revealing my personal life, but I'm actually revealing theirs. What a person does with what you give reveals the real character of such person, and you can envision and predict a whole set of interactions through their life and based on such reactions. You can even predict how long their marriage will last, or what they will do when you need them."
"How to know what God says is the time you took the decision. How to know what God says is what situation and condition was the state of your mind when you took the decision.Any decision you took when you were angry is definitely not the voice of God."
Explore more quotes by Idries Shah
"The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?"
"People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives."
"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."
"From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment."
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction."
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