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Idries Shah

Reflections

Small in size, but with a powerful punch, Idries Shah’s Reflections is a collection of fables, aphorisms, and statements that challenge the conditioned mind. The book confronts the reader with unaccustomed perspectives and ideas, in an attempt to set the mind free, to see how things really are. As the book’s foreword states, ‘Do you imagine that fables exist only to amuse or to instruct, and are based upon fiction? The best ones are delineations of what happens in real life, in the community and in the individual’s mental processes’.
100 printed pages
Original publication
2015
Publication year
2015
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Quotes

  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted7 years ago
    If you give what can be taken, 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.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted7 years ago
    Expectation
    If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
  • Roksana Kuchievahas quoted7 years ago
    Common Knowledge
    The more you look at “common knowledge,” the more you realize that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge.
    No real knowledge is common.

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