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  1. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights

    Never give charity if the reason is to make yourself feel better," he said. "Real charity is not selfish, but selfless." After
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  2. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights

    ORIENTAL CULTURE, OF which Morocco is certainly a part, has at its root a belief in selflessness. It's a subject rarely spoken of in the West, and even less frequently understood. To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walk softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest for real progress. Life in Morocco introduced me time and again to people who had achieved a form of everyday selflessness. It was a quality I respected beyond any other, a goal-perhaps unattainable-I hoped one day to touch. I found myself wondering if the search for the story in my heart might be a component, an element somehow linked to selflessness. As
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  3. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights

    Much travel is needed before a raw man is ripened. Arab
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  4. Tahir Shah _ In Arabian Nights

    I take reeds from the river that have been nurtured by fresh water and grown in good soil, and I turn them into baskets, a product that has so many uses. I know how to make baskets from something so simple because my father taught me, and his father taught him. "Make baskets of your own," he would say, "make them all kinds of shapes and colors. But never forget that your baskets are made of something that is there for anyone to cut and use. And never imagine that you created the reeds yourself. You are only the person who shapes them into something that can be of use to others.
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