Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
Knowledge, Learning
...action is in fact knowledge in operation. Right action stems from right knowledge. Right knowledge is acquired through the teacher.
Knowledge, Wisdom, Learning
There are natural phases to all life and wherever you are in life, you are perfectly becoming.
Learning, Growth
Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?
The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
Knowledge, Learning, Sufi
It has truly been said that 'Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.
Learning, School
Words have to die if humans are to live.
Learning, Sufi
The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Learning, Ego, Detachment
To copy a virtue in another is more copying than it is virtue. Try to learn what that virtue is based upon.
Do not try to be humble: learn humility.
Learning, Humility, Sufi
If you seek a teacher, try to become a real student. If you want to be a student, try to find a real teacher.
If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
Learning
You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
Truth, Wisdom, Learning
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