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Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth Quotes: Q: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi.
         

Q: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi.


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The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service

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Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe



If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.



Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?

Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?



One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.

One should not pray if that prayer is vanity.



Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.

Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room.




Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.

Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.



The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.

The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.





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This page presents the quote "Q: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi.". Author of this quote is Idries Shah, Seeker After Truth. This quote is about saadi, sufis, sufism, wisdom,.