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Just finished volume 1 of Moss Roberts's translation (up to chapter 70). The story of the fall of the Han Dynasty of China c 200 AD/CE and its replacement by three kingdoms at war with each other. What a magnificent story -- with so many elements of
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“El maestro es uno que abandona el ceremonial, la exhibición religiosa y las apariencias sociales, y se concentra en el desarrollo real.”
― A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way
― A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way
“But the psychologist as familiar to us today is generally dealing with what we call the fake personality of man: the superficial (though necessary) intellectual-emotional system with which he works. We are attempting to contact and inform the deeper individuality of the human being.”
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“Lo que el autoimaginado místico busca sólo en su meditación, es visible para el Sufi en cada esquina y cada callejuela.”
― A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way
― A Perfumed Scorpion: A Way to the Way
“DEBER
Ningún deber es innoble. Lo que puede ser innoble es el espectáculo de gente que trata de no ser innoble.”
― Reflexiones
Ningún deber es innoble. Lo que puede ser innoble es el espectáculo de gente que trata de no ser innoble.”
― Reflexiones
“Die before your Death...’ IT IS ALSO narrated that once Moulana said to his son: ‘If the people ask you what is your Path, then reply “My Path is to eat very little, nay, my Path is ‘to die’, that is, to be annihilated into the radiance of the Divine”.’ And then he related a story of a Dervish who, approaching a house, asked for some water to drink. A very beautiful girl appeared at the door and handed an empty utensil to the man; but the dervish said: ‘I want some water to drink.’ The girl asked him to go away, saying, ‘I have given you your reply, for a Dervish is not one who eats the whole day and sleeps the whole night; but the real pious one is he who sleeps hungry many a night and eats nothing during the day.’ Another Persian sage has said: ‘Eating is to preserve life, not living only to eat and yet eat more.’ Moulana said that the Dervish, after that encounter with the girl, never ate during the day until his last hour.”
― The Hundred Tales of Wisdom
― The Hundred Tales of Wisdom
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