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Idries Shah

"The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'."

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"The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'."

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