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“To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.”

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“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

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“Teach honesty by all means - you do know what it is, don't you?”

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Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right…

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“Sufism is transmitted by means of the human exemplar, the teacher.”

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“No existe práctica en aislamiento.”

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A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung…

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“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.”

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“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.”

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“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.”

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It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

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The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day.

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“Who is the wrong person to criticise? You”

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