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.

Idries Shah

Tags: depth attention present-moment banal



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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.

Idries Shah

Tags: truth games mirrors unaware asleep



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People are always trying to understand.
There is only one way to do that.
It is to discover

Idries Shah

Tags: understanding motivations technique



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It is not 'Have I got a chance?' It is more often: 'Have I seen my chance?

Idries Shah

Tags: hope opportunity chances awakening



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Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.

Idries Shah

Tags: friends originality enemies-and-opposition enemies-and-friends real-causes



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Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?

Idries Shah

Tags: honesty teaching sincerity capacity real-knowledge



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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.

Idries Shah

Tags: society conditioning cycles automatic-thoughts



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Effort makes some great men famous.
Even greater effort enables other great men to remain unknown.

Idries Shah

Tags: fame-and-effort-invisible



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Sometimes a pessimist is only an optimist with extra information.

Idries Shah

Tags: optimism pessimism information-overload



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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.

Idries Shah

Tags: prejudice assumption the-root-of-things



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