Inscribed on it was a verse from the Quatrains of Omar Khayyam, the eleventh-century Persian mystic. Reading the words aloud I prepared for a most amazing journey:The sages who have compassed sea and...
The mine is always bigger than the gem.
Better to quarrel with a friend than to support enemies.
If you are covetous, you are a prisoner: If you are greedy, you will never be filled.
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.
None meets harm who knows his capacity.
Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.
THE BIRD AND THE WATERA bird which has not heard of fresh waterDips his beak in salt-water year after year.(Anwar-i-Suhaili)
If the father cannot, the son will finish the task.
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.
That which is capable of perceiving objective reality is, in Sufism, the human soul (ruh).
Sufis hold that the superior experience and knowledge comes to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth,capacity,and earning of it.
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.
Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.
People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.
The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds
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