Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
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"Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity"
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?"
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible attitude towards society and life as generally known can usually absorb Sufi teachings very well indeed"
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form."
Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."
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
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