People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
Idries ShahTag: enlightenment inspirations
None should say : 'I can trust,' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Idries ShahTag: trust trustworthiness
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung to death by scorpions.
Idries ShahTag: fear fear-of-death
If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!
Idries ShahTag: wisdom money power flattery wise-man
People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.
Idries ShahTag: thinking knowledge attention
It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
Idries ShahTo be obsessed by the idea of freedom, for instance, is itself a form of slavery. Such people are in the chains of the hope of freedom, and are therefore able to do little else than struggle with them.
Idries ShahTag: freedom obsession slavery struggle-strength-character
A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.
Idries ShahYou need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
Idries ShahTag: friendship reliability
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
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