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 ShahMots clés certainty absurd lack-of-perspective
You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
Idries ShahMots clés lost ends means-and-ends
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.
Mots clés forgetting conditioning remembering
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.
Mots clés ignorance greed desire instructions
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.
Mots clés truth generosity giving-and-taking
Water shrinks wool, urgency shrinks time.
Shrinkage may be an advantage or the reverse, according to expectation.
Mots clés expectations disadvantage advantage shrinkage
People used to play with toys.
Now the toys play with them.
What is sometimes thought to be clever is, significantly often, merely an advanced form of foolishness.
Idries ShahMots clés illusion foolishness clever forms advanced
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying.
It was:
'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
Mots clés stupidity essence i-am sayings
It is not always a question of the Emperor having no clothes on. Sometimes it is, 'Is that an Emperor at all?
Idries ShahMots clés reality the-emperor-s-new-clothes
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