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"If you can say it... it's obvious."
"No perspective, no perception.New perspective, new perception."
"There is a difference between a calling and an assignment."
"As long as the vision is flawed, egoism is evident. Therefore, one has to get rid of the flaws."
"Listen to all, believe few, count on some, but trust none."
"Until you are clear nothing will be. The moment you are clear everything will be."
Explore more quotes by 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."
"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."
"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"
"People who cannot trust are themselves not trustworthy, and therefore cannot be entrusted with important things."
"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."
"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"
"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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