Quotes of: Spiritual-path Keyword

Having inner peace means committing to letting go of self-criticism and self-doubt.

Living with Joy: Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

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