When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
Idries ShahPrescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials.
Idries ShahHistory is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
Idries ShahNone should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Idries ShahOne can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries Shah