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One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

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'.

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.

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

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

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.

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

Words have to die if humans are to live.

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

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

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

To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.

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.

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.

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