Automatism Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image ““Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.”” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Automatism Conditioning Education Gurdjieff Learning Sufi Sufis Sufism
“There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“in college there is no time to commune with one’s thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“Through an exaggerated reliance on the intellect we have come to view the imagination as a faculty not to be trusted or valued.” — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“For education to happen, people must encounter worthwhile things outside their sphere of interest and brainpower.” — Mark Bauerlein Copy Share Image
“Education means inspiring someone's mind, not just filling their head.” — Katie Lusk Copy Share Image
“Great institutions are built by illiterates and mismanaged by the celebrated academic class.” — Anthony Ugochukwu O. Aliche Copy Share Image
“Dreams of changing the world could only be realized by properly investing time into learning.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“institutionalised learning in schools and institutions can tend to undermine the desire to learn, at least in certain contexts and under certain forms.” — Knud Illeris Copy Share Image
The flight from study and awareness is much too common in a world that throws too many confusing pictures to the individual. For the… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“So the studies don't back me up. There'll always be more studies. We'll change our minds and I'll have been right all along until… — Karen Joy Fowler Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“The real importance of automatism lay in the fact that it led to a different relation between the artist and the creative act. Where… — Michael Richardson Copy Share Image
