The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.
Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe.
“The candle burned the moth:But soon it will vanish in its own fat.”
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.”
“As swords were designed to killThey did well to make them tongue-shaped.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)”
“A man's capacity is the same as his breadth of vision.”
“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.”
“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)”
“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”
“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”
“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”
“Don't just stand there and nod. The mind observes and cogitates, the heart engages, and I would encourage you to engage with the process.”
“The necessary and needful reaction from the collective unconscious expresses itself in archetypally formed ideas. The meeting with oneself is, at first, the meeting with one's own shadow. The shado...”
“The unconscious no sooner touches us than we are itwe become unconscious of ourselves. That is the age-old danger, instinctively known and feared by primitive man, who himself stands so very close ...”
“SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence.”
“It is not Sufism if it does not perform its function for you. A cloak is no longer a cloak if it does not keep a man warm.”
“It is your duty to do your best. It is not, however, your birth-right to prevail.”