Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
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Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
Counsels of BahaudinYou want to be filled. But something which is full has first to be emptied. Empty yourself so that you will fill properly, by observing these counsels, which you can do as duties to yourself:FirstNever follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion.
If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.
Whoever might perfume a scorpionWill not thereby escape its sting. Bahaudin Naqshband
Debating whether one trusts or not is a sign that one does not want to trust at all, and therefore is still incapable of it.
When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.
You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara