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“The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.”
“There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.”
“None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.”
“Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.”
“You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.”
“It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience...”
“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
“One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek s...”
“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”
“One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.”
“The Sufis are unanimous that a Guide (Sheikh) is absolutely essential, though never available on demand: 'the Sufis are not merchants'.”
“If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily co...”
“In this world No phenomenon is strange.It surprises us because of our lack of knowledge about it." - Jahanshah Safari”
“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.”
“Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
“Interpreting dreams for Iranians was just as much a sacrament as reading coffee cups was for Turks”
“Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.”
“Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.”
“The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.”
“History is not usually what has happened. History is what some people have thought to be significant.”
