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“Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.”
“The more power they have over your emotions, the less likely you’ll trust your own reality and the truth about the abuse you’re enduring. Knowing the manipulative tactics and how they work to erode...”
“A man is deficient in understanding until he perceives that there is a whole cycle of evolution possible within himself: repeating endlessly, offering opportunities for personal development.”
“Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.”
“Talent is the presence of ability and absence of understanding about the source and operation of knowledge.”
“People are always trying to understand.There is only one way to do that.It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.”
“We are adjured not to burn the candle at both ends.But how many people have verified that physically possible?”
“Sufism is known by means of itself.”
“There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.”
“A real secret is something which only one person knows.”
“People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think...”
“Day and NightThe night is long: do not shorten it by sleep. The day is fair: do not darken it with wrongdoing.”
“She knew what she was, but she wasn’t fully Unseelie. She was half human and that was the part that mattered the most.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaTruthful man:He who is, secretly, regarded by everyone as an enemy.”
“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”
“From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying:'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.”
“The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.”
“If they ask you about me, tell them “She was the only girl who loved me with honesty, and I broke her.”.”
“The sight of God in woman is the most perfect of all." Ibn Arabi.”
“Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.”
