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Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way Quotes: ...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.
         

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.


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This page presents the quote "...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.". Author of this quote is Idries Shah, Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way. This quote is about evolution, psychology, society, sufism, ego, sufis, vanity,.