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Idries Shah

Reflections

  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving.
    Take what you are given, not what you want to be given.
    Take what is given:
    Give what cannot be taken.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Expectation
    If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Common Knowledge
    The more you look at “common knowledge,” the more you realize that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.
    No real knowledge is common.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Optimist and Pessimist
    Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Hope
    It is not “Have I got a chance?” It is more often: “Have I seen my chance?”
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Secrets
    A real secret is something which only one person knows.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Your Problem
    I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems.
    You ask me what to do about them.
    It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race.
    Face that one first.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Credulity
    Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticize.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Opinion
    Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted8 years ago
    Saying a Thing
    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.
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