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"I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient."
"I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
"Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day."
"It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times."
"Until the stone becomes soft, it cannot attach itself to the wall."
Explore more quotes by Idries Shah
"The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?"
"If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one " a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'."
"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so."
"People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives."
"To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon."
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