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“The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.”
“Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.”
“Humility has to precede instruction.”
“Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.”
“Humility is a teacher of itself. It is learnt by means of its practise.”
“For every Pharoah there is a Moses.”
“among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn”
“Disappointment cannot exist without expectation. The expected apricot is never as sweet when it reaches the mouth.”
“A Sufi school comes into being in order to flourish and disappear, not to leave traces in mechanical ritual, or anthropologically survivals.”
“Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.”
“EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.”
“You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them.”
“There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.”
“The liar has a bad memory.”
“Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.”
“In the distorting mirror of your mind, an angel can seem to have a devil's face.”
“The happiness of the superficial: when a man who has lost his donkey finds it again.”
“To bind one free man with love is better than to release a thousand slaves.”
“He discards a quilt for fear of bugs.”
“The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.”
