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

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If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.

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

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

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

Definition of a Sufi To learn, people must give up a great deal, and this includes ritual as something from which they imagine they might learn. It is to emphasise this that Abu-Yaqub al-Susi, quoted in Kalabadhi's Taaruf, states that the Sufi is 'On...

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

You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.

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

Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.

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

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed.

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

Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.

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

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

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

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

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.

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

People who have fallacious objectives are like the barren soil. The flowers grow from soil which is composed of the right objectives.

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

A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.

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.

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.

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.

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

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

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

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

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.

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