Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
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"Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Truth has no form."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information... The key is the teacher."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform"
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoe As he does for a polished mirror for the King."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"God provides the food, men provide the cooks."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Everything man needs is in the world."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
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