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Quotes About Sincerity

You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.
~ Idries Shah
Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.
~ Idries Shah
One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.
~ Idries Shah
Sufi service has to be the right kind of service; neither servitude nor hypocrisy.
~ Idries Shah
When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.
~ Idries Shah
There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.
~ Idries Shah
Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: "¿Por qué hiciste eso?" Junaid dijo: "Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.
~ Idries Shah
Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.
~ Idries Shah
Las personas con objetivos falaces son como la tierra árida. Las flores crecen en la tierra compuesta de los objetivos correctos.
~ Idries Shah
El maestro es uno que abandona el ceremonial, la exhibición religiosa y las apariencias sociales, y se concentra en el desarrollo real.
~ Idries Shah
Uno no debería rezar si esa oración es vanidad.
~ Idries Shah
Recognizing a 'True Master' is possible only when the postulant, man or woman, is what we call 'sincere'.
~ Idries Shah
Reconocer a un Maestro Verdadero es posible sólo cuando el postulante, hombre o mujer, es lo que llamamos "sincero".
~ Idries Shah
Definiciones de Mulla Do-Piaza Un tonto: un hombre tratando de ser honesto con los deshonestos.
~ Idries Shah
Se puede percibir si las aspiraciones de una persona son genuinas porque crean un cambio en las emanaciones de tal persona.
~ Idries Shah
people may give lip service to an important contention, yet not be permeated with it.
~ Idries Shah
One way is to leave the top floor and its grand accoutrements and get down into the bowels for real. Don't tell anyone you are coming. Avoid advance notices that produce crash cleanups, frantic preparations, and PowerPoint presentations.
~ Colin Powell
God loves us for who we are. We can´t work our way to his love. That doesn´t work here on this wold either. You either love someone for who they are, or you can forget it. Love that is earned is no love at all. It won´t last.
~ Colleen Coble
Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.
~ Confucius
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
~ Confucius
Remember, "being earnest" does not mean mimicking Hemingway.
~ Constance Hale
Let's never forget that we need to speak and write like human beings with hearts, and not like the tin woodsman in The Wizard of Oz or Hal in the movie 2001 .
~ Constance Hale
Sorry is one of those meaningless words people toss around before they kick you in the head again.
~ Unknown
You have my whole heart. You always did.
~ Cormac McCarthy