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Idries Shah

"What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness."

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"Life is a series of processes and struggles."

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"The heart of the wise person is a mirror to the world."

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"You are not responsible for the actions of others, only for your own."

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"Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one."

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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."

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"We are not slaves to our circumstances; we are slaves to our minds."

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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."

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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."

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"These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians and Moslems, and introducing material from and about Sufis."

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