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
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends. But how many people have verified that physically possible?
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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 is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.
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To be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
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