What can you do with a person who says that he is absolutely uncertain about everything, and that he is absolutely certain about that?

Idries Shah

Tags: certainty absurd lack-of-perspective

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You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

Idries Shah

Tags: lost ends means-and-ends

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You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Idries Shah

Tags: forgetting conditioning remembering

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When the human being says:
'It is not true...'
He may mean:
'I don't know about it, so I think it is untrue.'
Or:
'I don't like it.

Idries Shah

Tags: ignorance greed desire instructions

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If you give what can be takes, 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.

Idries Shah

Tags: truth generosity giving-and-taking

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Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.

Idries Shah

Tags: expectations disadvantage advantage shrinkage

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People used to play with toys.
Now the toys play with them.

Idries Shah

Tags: reality play toys

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What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.

Idries Shah

Tags: illusion foolishness clever forms advanced

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The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.
It was:
'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?

Idries Shah

Tags: stupidity essence i-am sayings

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It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?

Idries Shah

Tags: reality the-emperor-s-new-clothes

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