Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."
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"If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul."
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
"The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so."
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
"The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom."
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 do, and you do know what that means."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"All approaches to a study or an individual may start with a desire for attention. However they start, they must never end up in this manner."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Why did I do such-and-such a thing' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?"
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
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