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Idries Shah

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

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

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"Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."

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"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"

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"It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational."

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"Discipline is when we delay our gratifications."

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"Refuse to react to any angry actions."

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"A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean - or what we really think."

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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."

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"If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over.yes, other people can change.no, you can't change other people."

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"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."

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"Be kind to the hawk and harm the sparrow."
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"The question of divine knowledge is so deep that it is really known only to those who have it."
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"When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for."
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"But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school."
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