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| | Idries Shah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Shah's brother, Omar Ali Shah, was also a writer and teacher of Sufism. | | | Idries Shah has been described as "the most significant worker adapting classical spiritual thought to the modern world." Shah's books have sold over 15 million copies in 12 languages worldwide (see (His books)). | | | His definition of Sufism was liberal in that he was of the opinion that it predated Islam and did not depend on the Qur'an, but was universal in source, scope and relevance. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idries_Shah
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| | Idries_Shah_The_Commanding_Self |
| | Shah continues, "The Sufi insists that the adherence to traditional forms is not a spiritual activity at all. |
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http://www.geocities.com/bontasaurus/Idries_Shah_The_Commanding_Self.htm
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| | The Sufis and Idries Shah |
| | Idries Shah was born in 1924 in North India, of an ancient family that holds a special place in the community of the Sufis. | | | I am writing as one who studied with Shah as a pupil and the books were part — only part — of the curriculum, but they were read by a variety of people who found them useful. | | | There are people all over the world — I have met them while travelling — who say that Shah's books are the foundation, the 'warp and weft' of their lives, and not least because Shah's explicit warnings prevented them from haring after one of the many phoney "Sufi" teachers or gurus. |
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http://www.serendipity.li/more/lessing_shah.htm
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| | Gurdjieff Legacy, Articles |
| | Idries Shah's pretension to be a Sayyid (in common incidentally with a million or more putative descendants of Muhammad's younger grandson Husain) may be conceded grosso modo, without its conferring on him the spiritual authority he implies. | | | Idries Shah is one of these (great Sufi Masters), and from his birth has been prepared for the specific task of establishing this teaching here in the West. | | | His boyhood with his brother Omar Ali Shah was uneventful—though, even in Belmont, not entirely insulated from pockets of inexcusable prejudice against Anglo-Indians. |
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http://www.gurdjieff-legacy.org/40articles/neosufism.htm
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| | Idries Shah |
| | But no one at the time knows who that really is. Khidr told me it was Idries Shah, and I believe him. | | | Shah says that no real Sufi dresses up in the west in anything but street clothes. | | | I should of asked Khidr why he didn’t tell Idries to give up the smokes before it killed him but it didn’t occur to me until it was too late. |
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http://www.blaketashi.com/idries_shah.htm
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| | The Sufi Tradition, interview with Idries Shah |
| | Shah: People are always looking for leaders; that does not mean that this is the time for a leader. | | | Oh, it makes my books sell, but they were written for cool-headed people and there aren't many of those around. | | | Hall: When I read your books, the message came through very clearly that you are not interested in rational, sequential thought-in what Bob Ornstein calls left-hemisphere activity. |
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http://www.katinkahesselink.net/sufi/sufi-shah.html
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| | Ihsan: Idries Shah |
| | To his devotees, who still hang on his every written word, Shah was the teacher of the age, a guru of monumental proportions. | | | Speaking as someone who sees the Sufi traditions as encapsulating the greatest spiritual truth, I would argue Shah’s spiritual validity and legacy can only be understood by those ‘from the inside’; scholars and journalists are not Sufis. | | | Perhaps the most sensible assessment of him comes from the British ethnologist Ron Geaves, who acknowledges Shah as a Sufi who ‘epitomised the Malamati tradition’ (Geaves, 2000, p.169) in his rejection of all esotericism and outward shows of religion. |
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http://ihsan-net.blogspot.com/2005/03/idries-shah.html
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| | Amazon.com: The Sufis: Books: Idries Shah |
| | What Shah fails to let us know is that there are literally millions of people that are members of Sufic orders, and they are far from being all mystics. | | | First of all, the book seems not to be about the Sufis per se, but about Idries Shah's Sufis. | | | In the book, Shah states: "Sufism, in one definition, is human life. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0863040209?v=glance
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| | The New York Review of Books: THE MYSTERIOUS EAST |
| | They are in fact for the most part the people who, with Robert Graves and Doris Lessing, were taken in by Omar Ali Shah's "manuscript" of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam—and that, by the way, is why it is relevant to mention it in the context of a review of his brother's writing. | | | Some Western intellectuals are so desperate to find answers to the questions that baffle them, that, confronted with wisdom from "the mysterious East," they abandon their critical faculties and submit to brainwashing of the crudest kind. | | | It will not have escaped the notice of your readers that the list of those who have praised her hero's work contains at most one with any knowledge of Islamic literature, religion, and philosophy. |
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http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10797
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| | Idries Shah |
| | Shah was the descendant of a thousand-year-old Afghan family, and an author and teacher who found success explaining the East to the West. | | | Idries Shah (1924-1996), whose family lived in Afghanistan for a thousand years, is an internationally known authority on the region and his books on Sufism are considered seminal. | | | Idries Shah is better known for his books on Sufism. |
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http://www.wordtrade.com/religion/islam/idriesshahR.htm
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| | This is because, in keeping with its self-determined mission to promote unity among all religions, the Sufi Order does not insist that its members identify with the Islamic faith. | | | 1235), Idries Shah affirms: "By divine illumination man sees the world to be illusion." | | | Evil is, as we have seen, illusion; its cure is to get rid of the ignorance which causes us to take the Phantoms of the world of Sense for Realities. |
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http://www.equip.org/free/DI200-3.htm
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| | Winds of Change.NET: Sufi Wisdom: Idries Shah Interview |
| | I really thanks to those who will help to get Shah's work,then I will translate it to Indonesian language,so many Indonesian people can enjoy for more brightly life and be better world. | | | A remarkable man in all respects, not some phony guru but the real deal. | | | I come from Indonesia, I am one of who very admire and very surprised by Shah's work even just read a few book. |
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http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/003379.php
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| | deconsumption: Commentary by Idries Shah on the Understanding of Miracles and Magic in the Sufi Tradition |
| | In this light, I've been re-reading the above-cited book written by a renowned scholar of esoteric knowledge carried within the Sufi tradition, Idries Shah. | | | The Sufis is intended to be an introductory text on the Eastern and Middle-Eastern Sufic tradition, and the following passages all come from a chapter called Miracles and Magic. | | | One thing must come before another." (The Sufis by Idries Shah, p. |
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http://deconsumption.typepad.com/deconsumption/2005/06/commentary_by_i.html
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| | Freshman Foundation Year - Ways of Seeing: Sufism, stories, and Islam |
| | Saira Shah's uncle (her father's brother, son of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah/Morag Murray Abdullah) Sayed Omar Ali-Shah -scroll down to About the author | | | Grandfather on her father's side: Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, Sayed - Brief identification | | | amazon's listing of books written by Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah |
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http://www.fsc.edu/ffy/sufi.html
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| | On Sufism and Idries Shah's The Commanding Self - OccultForums.com |
| | His father, for instance, was The Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah, an equally extraordinary man, who represented India and Afghanistan at different times as a diplomat, and in cultural institutions designed to bridge the gap between West and East, and was a writer on religious and cultural questions, and a traveler whose books still fascinate. | | | At the start a student will almost certainly associate Sufism with religious or cults she or he is already familiar with. | | | For this time now in the West it is Idries Shah, who is the author of this book. |
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http://www.occultforums.com/showthread.php?t=9587
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| | Learning How to Learn by Idries Shah, A Spiritual Science Review by Bobby Matherne |
| | Thus Idries Shah shows us, to paraphrase Jami quotation above, "The Teacher does not stand in need of the students, except for the manifestation of teaching, but the students need the Teacher for their very existence." If the Teacher is to teach, students are required. | | | Using the traditional Sufi method of "question-and-answer", Shah gives us a representative sample of "a hundred conversations" in which he answers questions asked him in a mailbag of over forty thousand letters from all over the world. | | | The Teacher himself may regard the learner as more important, but that is a matter for the Teacher, and there is no point discussing his attitudes when the conversation is about learning and not teaching. |
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http://www.doyletics.com/art/learning.htm
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| | Idries Shah |
| | Idries Shah is a complex figure, who has been criticized from many quarters, especially by those whom one could consider his own people, Muslims and various scholars and leaders of the existing modernday Sufi schools and lineages. | | | In the west he has been regarded by many as another in a long sucession of rascal gurus. | | | I had been practicing and working with a number of traditions and methods for 20 years before the intense experience of really re-discovering Shah and devouring all of the best works he produced in the later part of his life. |
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http://www.telesterion.com/esotericbooks/idries.htm
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| | eBay - shah 1986, Kara Kush, Fiction Books items on eBay.com |
| | Shah of Iran, Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski,1986 | | | Note: We recently made changes to enable you to view eBay search pages faster. | | | eBay - shah 1986, Kara Kush, Fiction Books items on eBay.com |
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http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=shah+1986&newu=1&krd=1
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| | Sufism |
| | Some Gurus are Frankly Phonies, and they don’t try to hide it from me. They think I am one too. | | | Книги, написанные членами семьи Идриса Шаха (Books written by Idries Shah’s family members) | | | Books with Idries Shah’s participation, about him, etc. |
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http://www.idriesshah.info/Shah/IdriesShah.htm
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| | Amazon.com: Kara Kush: Books: Idries Shah |
| | Shah was the descendant of a thousand-year-old Afghan family, and an author and teacher who found success explaining the East to the West. | | | His books on Sufism, philosophy, history, and travel, are known the world over. | | | The way Shah jump`s through the book giving new character`s almost every chapter, you can`t get to feel as if you have any connection or feeling`s for them and hence come`s across feeling more like a text book with a fictious story in a real life setting then a real story. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1585673218?v=glance
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| | ISHK BOOK SERVICE - Books by Idries Shah |
| | A practical philosophy with deep roots in Afghanistan, Sufism is sometimes mislabeled "Islamic mysticism" in the West because it is widespread in Moslem countries, although it is not tied to any religion and has included members of all faiths. | | | His more than three dozen books have been translated into 12 languages. | | | Idries Shah (1924 -1996), born in Afghanistan and educated in the East and West, spent more than 30 years collecting stories from the Sufi tradition and adapting them to contemporary Western culture. |
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http://www.ishkbooks.com/books/books_shah_catalog.html
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| | Open Mind Designers - Sufi books, new age books and audio tapes on traditional psychologies and alternative thinking |
| | Building on the foundations laid in Learning How to Learn and The Commanding Self, Idries Shah in Knowing How To Know, illuminates those factors. | | | This beautiful collection of stories is one of Shah's best-selling books, and a stirring example of the Sufi system of development at work in the world today. | | | Joining with him are celebrities, treasure-hunters, expatriates, royals, pseudo-royals and an unforgettable parade of internationals. |
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http://www.theopenminddesigners.com/shah/shah.html
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| | Shah, Idries; bibliography by subject |
| | Please click on the subject to see books. | | | Alternatively, you can see the alphabetically ordered bibliography of Shah, Idries. |
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http://isbndb.com/d/person/shah_idries.html
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| | The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin (Idries Shah) |
| | They are used as teaching exercises, in part to momentarily "freeze" situations in which states of mind can be recognized. | | | The key to the philosophic significance of the Nasrudin jokes is given in Idries Shah's book "The Sufis" and a complete system of mystical training based upon them was described in the Hibbert Journal. | | | He appears in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the mind in a way no straightforward explanation can. |
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http://islamicbookstore.com/b8026.html
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| | ISHK BOOK SERVICE - Octagon Press |
| | Translated from the Persian and presented by Idries Shah | | | Life, Teachings and Miracles of Jalaludin Rumi from Aflaki's 'Munaquib,' together with certain important stories from Rumi's works, traditionally known as 'The Hundred Tales of Wisdom' | | | with writings by Sir Richard Burton, Robert Graves, Idries Shah and others |
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http://ishkbooks.com/books/octagon_index.html?sp-q=scott+ernest&...
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| | Children's Books by Idries Shah - Hoopoe Books |
| | Children's Books by Idries Shah - Hoopoe Books | | | A silly chicken that a wise man teaches to speak tells the people, ‘The earth is going to swallow us up!’ After several panicked and humorously illustrated attempts to escape the earth, the people return to their village and question the chicken about where he got his information. | | | This award-winning series of large-format, beautifully illustrated children’s books by Afghan author Idries Shah presents tales from a rich tradition of storytelling. |
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http://www.hoopoekids.com
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| | Idries Shah |
| | The author, Idries Shah, has been described as "the most significant worker adapting classical spiritual thought to the modern world" and this book, according to the author, is a key to the entire corpus of his work. | | | This book, like others by Shah, is designed to offer a way to transcend the limits imposed by the commanding self. |
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http://members.aol.com/way4th/shah.htm
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| | Amazon.ca: The Commanding Self: Books |
| | This book here was written later in his life, I believe, and consists of one embittered rant after another about people not taking him, and Sufism, seriously enough. | | | For one of the most fascinating incidental aspects of Idries Shah's work has been the way his books have been, for well over a quarter of a century, not only widely read but also hardly known. | | | Shah once pointed out that the oft-repeated supposedly Chinese saying, "the journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step" fails to note directly that if one does not know in which direction to step (or, for that matter, why to undertake a journey in the first place) one can readily go badly astray. |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0863040667
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| | Idries Shah |
| | Shah has been described as "the most significant worker adapting classical spiritual thought to the modern world." Shah's lively, contemporary books have sold over 15 million copies in 12 languages worldwide. | | | The instrumental function of Shah's work is now well established among people from all walks of life. | | | As the urgency of our global situation becomes apparent, more and more readers are turning to the books of Afghan writer Idries Shah (1924-1996) as a way to train new capacities and new ways of thinking. |
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http://www.sufis.org/shah.html
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| | Octagon Press Authors - Idries Shah |
| | Shah’s twenty nine books, translated into more than 15 languages, which sell in their millions, are considered to be some of the most important literature to be published during the twentieth century. | | | Among his many accomplishments, he is credited with making a wide body of scholarship on Eastern traditional teachings available in the Western world. | | | IDRIES SHAH WAS born in 1924 into the respected Afghan family, the Sadaat of Paghman. |
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http://www.octagonpress.com/authors/idriesshah.htm
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| | Big Sur Tapes: Shah, Idries |
| | This recording presents a prepared question and answer session, in which Shah responds to inquiries from all over the world about various aspects of Sufi practice, emphasizing the importance of clear perception and getting beyond our pre-conceived notions of reality. | | | Idries Shah (1924 - 1996) was a Grand Sheikh of the Sufis, one of the foremost publicizes of Sufi teachings in the West. | | | In this archival interview, Shah uses traditional Sufi stories to illustrate his points about human evolutionary potential and the role of Sufism in the West. |
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http://www.bigsurtapes.com/merchant.mv158.htm
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| | Octagon Press - The Magic Monastery |
| | Many of Idries Shah’s books are comprised of tales and teaching stories taken from both written and oral sources, which illustrate the instructional methods employed by Eastern wise men for thousands of years. | | | As with all of his works, The Magic Monastery is rich in thought-provoking material, and can be read and enjoyed at many levels. | | | The Magic Monastery differs from its predecessors in that it contains not only traditional tales, mostly unpublished — but also stories specially written by Shah to complete the book as a ‘course in non-linear thinking’. |
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http://www.clearlight.com/octagon/titles/books/mamo.htm
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| | Reflections |
| | The Shah is not in the city; what shall we do with his court? | | | The rose has gone from the garden; what shall we do with the thorns? |
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http://spaces.msn.com/members/aldaris
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| | The Boy Without a Name by Idries Shah from Hoopoe Books |
| | When a boy is born, his parents are visited by a wise man who tells them not to name their son. | | | The Boy Without a Name by Idries Shah from Hoopoe Books | | | Get free Adobe Acrobat Reader for PDF files |
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http://www.hoopoekids.com/Name.html
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| | Sufism: Sufi Stories as told by Idries Shah |
| | Is that because someone gave him a silver piece and enabled him to buy the knife with which he committed the murder; or because someone saw him do it; or because nobody stopped him?" | | | Sufism: Sufi Stories as told by Idries Shah | | | Sufism and Fourth Way Jokes, Stories and Poems More Idries Shah Sufi Terminology Links Lost? |
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http://www.katinkahesselink.net/sufi/stories.html
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| | Idris Shah |
| | The Hundred Tales of Wisdom : Life, Teachings and Miracles of Jalaludin Rumi by Idries Shah (May 1992) | | | The Commanding Self, by Idries Shah, 332 pages (June 1997) | | | Learning from Stories : Caravan of Dreams and the Adventures of Mulla Nasrudin by Idries Shah (Audio Cassette - September 1997) |
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http://www.khamush.com/sufism/idris_shah.htm
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| | Find in a Library: Sufi studies: East and West; a symposium in honor of Idries Shah's services to Sufi studies by ... |
| | Sufi studies: East and West; a symposium in honor of Idries Shah's services to Sufi studies by twenty-four contributors marking the 700th anniversary of the death of Jalaluddin Rumi (A.D. by Idries Shah; Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana; L F Rushbrook Williams | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. | | | Find in a Library: Sufi studies: East and West; a symposium in honor of Idries Shah's services to Sufi studies by twenty-four contributors marking the 700th anniversary of the death of Jalaluddin Rumi (A.D. Search: |
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http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/3b4e59fb3e663339.html
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| | Buddhist Channel Books |
| | London, UK -- On receiving this book, I casually assigned it to the shadowy category of "oriental wisdom", a category familiar to me from the likes of Idries Shah and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. |
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http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?books
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| | Quotations with Pictures, Pictures and Quotations, Winston Churchill, Idries Shah, Taoist, Inspirational Quotations, ... |
| | I'm responding with the only vocabulary I have to ordinary and extraordinary situations that I see around me. | | | Quotations with Pictures, Pictures and Quotations, Winston Churchill, Idries Shah, Taoist, Inspirational Quotations, Quotations |
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