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Idries Shah

"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."

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"When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration."

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"I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them."

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"These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with."

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"Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word."

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"Fool! The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself: thy Condition is but the stuff thou art to shape that same Ideal out of: what matters whether such stuff be of this sort or that, so the Form thou give it be heroic, be poetic? O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know this of a truth: the thing thou seekest is already with thee, 'here or nowhere,' couldst thou only see!"

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"Ours is a circle of friendships united by ideals."

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"It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren."

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"There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong."

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"Truth! Freedom! Justice! And a hard-boiled egg!"

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"Ideals are the worlds masters."

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"Our ideals are our better selves."

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"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."
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"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."
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"Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything. Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi."
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"But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'."
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"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."
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"Good. Show me a man who thinks that he knows what 'good' is, and I will probably be able to show you a horror of a person. Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word."
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"You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end."
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"Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious."
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"Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified."
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"If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love."
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