Idries Shah Quotes

Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal.Interesting people can find something interesting in all things.

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Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

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You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

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The Apparent is the Bridge to the Real

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Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

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Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.

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Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.

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A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work

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