14 quotes found
“My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide people with a chance to maximize their minds. Suspend ordinary constraints,...”
“Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.”
“Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.”
“Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)”
“The existence of relative truth does not prove the non-existence of universal truth.”
“To drown in treacle is just as unpleasant as to drown in mud.People today are in danger of drowning in information; but because they have been taught information is useful, they are more willing to...”
“He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.”
“Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.”
“Sufism is, in operation, pragmatic.”
