"Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?"

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Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.142, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

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“Fifteen-year-old girls produce children with sixteen-year-old boys in the backseat of cars and in the stairwells of apartment buildings. Why can't two loving adults who have contemplated parenthood and are prepared to offer love, patience, and devotion come up with enough chromosomal matter to stick together and create a child?”

Source : "Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other: In Praise of Adoption". Book by Scott Simon, 2010.
“â€¦there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creatureâ€¦And yet she had loved him- sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in the face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being.”
“If you lose your reason, you lose it into the hands of God....It's the only place where anything is safe. And when you're dead it's only what's there you'll have. Nothing else.”
“[On 9/11:] ... those towers represented human triumph over nature. Larger than life, built to be unburnable, they were the Titanic of our day. For them to burn and fall so quickly means that the whole superstructure we depend upon to mitigate nature and assure our comfort and safety could fall.”
“I grew up doing farm work, and there's a deep connection between the demands of farming and the demands of art creation. My sense of space and material has a lot to do with having been a chicken-killer and working with cows.”

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“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.”
“Canada had the good health-care system and educational system. It was a privilege for me to grow up there.”
“Game of Thrones is great. Love it.”

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