Quotes About Introspection

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN: Self-justification is worse than the original offence.

Knowledge cannot be attained except through humility.

If you will not reprove yourself,' Saadi says, 'you will not welcome reproof from another.

Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?

I have heard all that you have had to say to me on your problems. You ask me what to do about them. It is my view that your real problem is that you are a member of the human race. Face that one first.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?

Who is the wrong person to criticise? You

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

Mediation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

Assume that you are part-hypocrite and part heedless, and you will not be far wrong.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet.

Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.

You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.

Humility has to precede instruction.

Dramático. Un sentido bien desarrollado de lo dramático tiene valores que van más allá de lo que la gente generalmente imagina. Uno de éstos es darse cuenta de las limitaciones del sentido de lo dramático

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

IMPRESSIONS Time brought a thousand impressions. Not one of them had I seen in the mirror of the imagination. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)