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Idries Shah

"The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning."

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

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

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

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

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"It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?"

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"Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, environment, propaganda, conditioning.If people had the sense they pretend to have, they would seek this fundamental distinction perceptible.Hardly anyone makes this effort. This is partly because it is an invisible but powerful part of their culture to teach that conditioned emotionality and 'causes' whose necessity, urgency or rightness is only conditioned into them, are necessarily, right."

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"You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous."

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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."

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"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."

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"Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it."

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