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#1

“It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.”
― Idries Shah, The Sufis

tags: sufi, sufism

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#2

“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: awareness, history, possibility, timing

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#3

“Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.”
― Idries Shah

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#4

“Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: information-overload, optimism, pessimism

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#5

“You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: friendship, reliability

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#6

“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: information, knowledge, opinion

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#7

“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”
― Idries Shah

tags: sufi, sufism

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#8

“If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: expectation, gifts, perception, present-moment

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#9

“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: approval, free-will

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#10

“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.

(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

tags: islam, religion, sufis, sufism

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#11

“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: ego, essence, learning, sufi, superficiality

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#12

“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

tags: intellect, knowledge, philosophy, practice, sufi, sufism

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#13

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: consciousness, death, evolution, life, psychology, sufis, sufism, will

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#14

“It is not important to have said a thing first, or best - or even most interestingly. What is important is to say it on the right occasion.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: timing

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#15

“If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: flattery, money, power, wisdom, wise-man

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#16

“Knowledge is something which you can use.
Belief is something which uses you.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: asleep, belief, knowledge, usefulness, uselessness

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#17

“When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.”
― Idris SHah

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#18

“The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.”
― Idries Shah

tags: llumination, love, sufism

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#19

“It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#20

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, The First and Last Freedom

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#21

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

tags: humor, insanity, life, misattributed-ben-franklin, misattributed-mark-twain, misattributed-to-einstein

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#22

“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
― Allen Saunders

tags: fate, life, misattributed-john-lennon, planning, plans

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#23

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

tags: dreams, life

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#24

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
― Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

tags: life, navigation

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