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“Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza.Poverty: The result of marriage.”
“DANCE – Defeat All Negativity (via) Creative Expression.”
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.”
“And isn't that what we all are—a compilation of all of our life experiences, of little pieces of all the people who have shaped our days; all of us just fighting to make sure the best parts of us w...”
“A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.”
“Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaEmotionalist:A man or woman who thinks he has experienced the divine.”
“You call me an unbeliever. I shall therefore call you a True Believer since a lie is best met with one of similar magnitude.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaIntellectual: One who knows no craft.”
“Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe”
“The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.”
“Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.”
“It is axiomatic that the attempt to become a Sufi through a desire for personal power as normally understood will not succeed.”
“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”
“Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.”
“If I knew what two and two were – I would say Four!”
“Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)”
“Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.”
“Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.”
“Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.”
