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“You fear tomorrow: yet yesterday is just as dangerous.”
“Saadis 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.”
“When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.”
“Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.”
“There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.”
“Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.”
“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.”
“Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.”
“Inheritance and culture obscure peoples higher capacities.”
“The decline in the influence of religion has been due, in the main, not to religion itself, but to the very shallowness of many practitioners. People who are indoctrinated and mistake implanted obs...”
“If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.”
“Study the assumptions behind your actions. Then study the assumptions behind your assumptions.”
“Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.”
“The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.”
“Life is about going with the flow of time...Every single moment is becoming a past & every past needs us to let them stay as is untouched... Every single moment demands you to go... Don't turn back...”
“If I knew what two and two were I would say Four!”
