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“They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is bette...”
“It is no accident that Sufis find that they can connect most constructively with people who are well integrated into the world, as well as having higher aims, and that those who adopt a sensible at...”
“The main problem is that most commentators are accustomed to thinking of spiritual schools as 'systems', which are more or less alike, and which depend upon dogma and ritual: and especially upon re...”
“There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself ...”
“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)”
“Moving the body resolves nothing- sadness, after all travels in the mind.”
“Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.”
“Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.”
“Causes: As important a fact as any individual cause on earth is the vital incapacity of the human individual to distinguish between genuine cause and one which is foisted upon him by pressure, envi...”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.”
“Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.”
“From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.”
“Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.”
“Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.”
“Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.”
“...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.”
“Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.”
