33 Quotes by Idries Shah about mind
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Question 3: Why should a person study Sufism?Answer: Because he was created to study it; it is his next step.
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When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.
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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.
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.
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When the mind is full of established biases, it will not be able to graft Sufism on top of them.
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You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.
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