“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
Source: Words of Radiance
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“It is not about your ability to read, it is about your ability to learn.”
Source: Christian Canlubo https://en.everybodywiki.com/Christian_Canlubo| Christian Canlubo profile on EverybodyWiki
Christian Canlubo https://en.everybodywiki.com/Christian_Canlubo response to a one person question that says he doesn't learn even he reads a multiple pages of a book in an event in the Philippines.

“Don't let the culture influence your message, let your message influence the culture.”
“blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin”
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Source: Who Is Man? (1965), Ch. 5<!-- The sense of the ineffable, p. 89 -->
Context: Faith is not belief, an assent to a proposition, faith is attachment to the meaning beyond the mystery.
Knowledge is fostered by curiosity; wisdom is fostered by awe. Awe precedes faith; it is the root of faith. We must be guided by awe to be worthy of faith.
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the world becomes a market place for you. The loss of awe is the avoidance of insight. A return to reverence is the first prerequisite for a revival of wisdom, for the discovery of the world as an allusion to God.
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 86
Context: How would your life be different if … You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day … You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192

“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”
Source: Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way