The Commanding Self Quotes

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The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress.

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The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.

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La mayor barrera para la comprensión es el pensamiento anhelante y seguir lo que a uno le gusta.

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What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

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If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…

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Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.

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… the Sufi attitude is: ‘Let the real truth, whatever it may be, be revealed to me’.

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With enough information, it is almost impossible "not" to predict people's action.

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The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon repetition and the application of continual and standar...

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Trying to force something is the best way to stop it happening.

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It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold.

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That which is given free is never knowledge. It may be information....but knowledge does not come in that manner.

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El hombre impaciente es su propio enemigo, cierra de golpe la puerta de su propio progreso.

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Con suficiente información es casi imposible "no" predecir las acciones de la gente.

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No estarás lejos de la verdad si supones que se encuentra presente…#

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…la actitud Sufi es: “Que la auténtica verdad, cualquiera que fuere, me sea revelada

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Those who can’t, try: those who can, don’t have to.

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