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Namaste, Welcome to SAM-VAD (Together In Conversation), as we begin today \u2018let us remember, \u2018What we give our Attention to matters.\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our life\u2019s experience would ultimately amount to whatever we had paid attention to. Attention: is important and most of the times we are indifferent to it. It is as fundamental as food; and we go blundering about, seeking ways to assuage the craving, instead of learning how to provide ourselves with what we need, sensibly and calmly. Once our attention is drawn to the mechanism of why and what we give attention to, it is as if a veil has been stripped off and we become freer in our action and choices.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week I bring to your attention a statement titled \u2018Conceit<\/em>\u2019 from the book titled \u2018Knowing How to Know<\/em>\u2019. It is a collection of Tales, stories, fables, aphorisms and statements that draw our attention to the basic factors that must be in place so that knowledge and understanding is acquired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It reveals concealed pattern, normally invisible to our customary modes of thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conceit<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

To people of lower development, superior ideas often seem to be couched in almost unacceptably \u201csuperior\u201d language. This feeling, however, stems only from subjective reactions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you tell a backward man, ignorant of medicine, that you can cure an infection by means of a tube of cream, he may well think that you are a liar, and giving yourself airs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He may, equally inaccurately, think that you are a god.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both attitudes conform to his stage of understanding, not to the reality of the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is one reason why it is valuable to establish the differences between wishful thinking and useful thought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Statement from \u2018Knowing How to Know\u2019 by Idries Shah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sure that you will enjoy reading this book; you can buy your copy from the following link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Knowing How to Know by Idries Shah<\/a><\/blockquote>