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Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that…
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Apprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion.
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying His prayer,…
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done…
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Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have…
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What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or…
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Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Statistics that law in…
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To understand God's thoughts, one must study statistics, for these are the measure of His purpose.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward…
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Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the object presented to patients are an actual means of recovery.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we…
— Eknath Easwaran
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You must go to Mahometanism, to Buddhism, to the East, to the Sufis Fakirs, to Pantheism, for the right growth of mysticism.
— Florence Nightingale
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The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
— Idries Shah
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There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People…
— Idries Shah
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then…
— Feisal Abdul Rauf
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The Sufis have a saying: "Praise Allah, and tie your camel to a post." This brings together both parts of practice: pray,…
— Jack Kornfield
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Dance with the sufis, celebrate your top ten in the charts of pain.
— Tori Amos
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It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.
— Idries Shah
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
— Idries Shah
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Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does…
— Rumi
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Even the Quran, which Sufis respect as the direct speech of God, lacks the capacity to shed light upon God’s essence. As…
— Reza Aslan
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
— Idries Shah
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