Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
Idries Shah
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.”
“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”
“When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.”
“Do not try to be humble: learn humility.”
“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
“They say: 'Seek wisdom while you have the strength, or you may lose the strength without gaining wisdom.”
“Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.”
“There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.”
“The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.”
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