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One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...Idries Shah
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If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.Idries Shah
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A donkey eats a melon, it remains a donkeyIdries Shah
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The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standardised pressures upon their followers. The Sufi way, except in degenerate forms which are not to be classified as Sufic, is entirely different from this.Idries Shah
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The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.Idries Shah
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What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.Idries Shah
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.Idries Shah
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If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…Idries Shah
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Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.Idries Shah
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… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.Idries Shah
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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.Idries Shah
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The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.Idries Shah
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Nothing cheap without reason.Idries Shah
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Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.Idries Shah
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It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.Idries Shah
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That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.Idries Shah
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With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.Idries Shah