One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.
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Idries Shah
The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.
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Idries Shah
All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)
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Blanche Bachelar
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.
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Philip Rieff
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own .. . and that the trouble...
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Robert A. Heinlein
More Quotes By Robert Wright
We are built to be effective animals, not happy ones.
Being a person's true friend means endorsing the untruths he holds dearest.
Once you the forces that govern behavior, it's harder to blame the behaver
..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way
Nature has gone to great lengths to hide our subconscious from ourselves. Why?