You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
Idries ShahMaterialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
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Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.
Idries ShahBut one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.
Idries ShahOne cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.
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The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.
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The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.
Idries ShahHistory is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.
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People today are in danger of drowning in information; but, because they have been taught that information is useful, they are more willing to drown than they need be.
If they could handle information, they would not have to drown at all.
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