sufis

Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaBribe Substitute for law, which is a substitute for justice.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaSupporter: Someone who will say anything.

Be a dog, but don't be a younger brother.Proverb.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaAdherent:Someone who will believe anything except what he should.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaCommunity: Irrationals unified by hope of the impossible.

Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaPatience: A support for the disappointed.

Inheritance and culture obscure people__ higher capacities.

Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.

Ali, Son of the Father of the SeekerAli said: 'None may arrive at the Truth until he is able to think that the Path itself may be wrong. This is because those who can only believe that it must be right are not believers, but people who are incapable of thinking otherwise than they already think. Such people are not men at all. Like animals they must follow certain beliefs, and during this time they cannot learn. Because they cannot be called __umanity_, they cannot arrive at the Truth.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

The Sufis,' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

The Sufi must be able to alternate his thought between the relative and the Absolute, the approximate and the Real.

Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

If I knew what two and two were _ I would say Four!

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.