“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 Shah , book Reflections

Source: Reflections

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writer and Sufi teacher 1924–1996

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