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#1

“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

tags: sufi, sufism

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#2

“The most important thing is not to work on things that other people are working on because otherwise all you'll do is get the same result as everybody else and you won't make any discoveries, you'll just confirm what's already known.

David Jewitt (27:00 in)
On Asteroids - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
IMDB title tt1777180
BBC4 01/09/2014”
― David Jewitt

tags: asteroids, astronomy, science, spare-research

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#3

“No practice exists in isolation.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: enlightenment, evolution, practice, sufi, sufis, sufism

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#4

“There are other unimportant things about us and our world, which are doubtless the actions of civilised species everywhere. We mate for life - unless we don't.”
― Terence Park, Lucky and other stories

tags: wanderer

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#5

“Few things are more absurd than wise saws originally designed to inculcate or maintain the social needs of a society long past - when they are applied to today.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: aphorisms, big-picture, lack-of-knowledge, lack-of-perspective, rigidity

8 likes

#6

“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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#7

“When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

tags: attachment, evolution, mind, psychology, sufis, sufism

23 likes

#8

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

36 likes

#9

“The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: fool, silence, wisdom

18 likes

#10

“Saying of the Prophet
The Tongue
A man slips with his tongue more than with his feet.”
― Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

tags: ethics, hadith, islam, muhammad, psychology, religion, sufis, sufism

12 likes

#11

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

tags: information-overload, optimism, pessimism

85 likes

#12

“Effort makes some great men famous.
Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.”
― Idries Shah, Reflections

tags: fame-and-effort-invisible

13 likes

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