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“To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.”
― Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way

“Ali, Son of the Father of the Seeker
Ali said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called “humanity”, they cannot arrive at the Truth.”
― Idries Shah, Thinkers of the East