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Knowing How to Know

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By Idries Shah — 2020

How can you develop spiritual understanding? This sequel to Learning How to Learn and The Commanding Self turns that question on its head. It claims that we're bombarded by a spiritual impulse all the time. So it's more useful to look at the reasons we don't learn. See more...

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Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

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These illuminating discourses, covering a wealth of themes relating to the inner life, open an accessible and refreshing window to the mature practical spirituality within the living tradition of Sufism.

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Sermons on the Parables

Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was one of the finest thinkers and most influential preachers of his era. Yet Thurman's importance goes well beyond his influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. and others in the freedom struggle.

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