Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"No practice exists in isolation."
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
"The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"One 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, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Do not try to be humble: learn humility."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Words have to die if humans are to live."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
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