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Thinking Quotes by Idries Shah
- People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because…
- When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
- One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding…
- You are still adrift while you still think that a means is an end.
- Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
- 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…
- 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…
- If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want…
- An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.
- Banality is like boredom: bored people are boring people, people who think that things are banal are themselves banal. Interesting people can find something interesting…
- Enemies are often former or potential friends who have been denied - or think that they have been denied - something.
- From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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