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.
Tags: depth attention present-moment banal
Denial and affirmation are games which people play.
There are people who deny that they are capable of denying, and who would insist that people do not insist.
Tags: truth games mirrors unaware asleep
People are always trying to understand.
There is only one way to do that.
It is to discover
Tags: understanding motivations technique
It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?
Idries ShahTags: hope opportunity chances awakening
Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
Idries ShahTags: friends originality enemies-and-opposition enemies-and-friends real-causes
Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?
Idries ShahTags: honesty teaching sincerity capacity real-knowledge
You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so.
I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.
Tags: society conditioning cycles automatic-thoughts
Effort makes some great men famous.
Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.
Tags: fame-and-effort-invisible
Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.
Idries ShahTags: optimism pessimism information-overload
People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.
'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.
Tags: prejudice assumption the-root-of-things
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