Ego Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image ““The major barrier to understanding is wishful thinking and following that which pleases one.”” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ego Learning Nafs Sufi Sufis Sufism Wishful thinking
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“Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
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“When one is ready, when we choose, the understanding will be a part of life. Then we are guided very differently.” — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
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“There are times when the understanding does not come until later, when it no longer matters. Other times I do what I must do,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Your actions show what you know, and your replies to obstacles give clarity into what you will learn.” — Grace Sara Copy Share Image
“Open your mind to what I shall explain, then close around it, for it is no learning to understand what one does not retain.” — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
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“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
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“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships. — Gabriel Macht Copy Share Image
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It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world. — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image