Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way Quotes

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Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

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.

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.

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. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

No practice exists in isolation.

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.

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.

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

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

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.

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'.

Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way