“Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.”
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
― Learning How to Learn: Psychology and Spirituality in the Sufi Way
“A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.”
― In Search of King Solomon's Mines
― In Search of King Solomon's Mines
“I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Are you nobody, too?
Then there ’s a pair of us—don’t tell!
They ’d banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Knowledge is not gained, it is there all the time. It is the "veils" which have to be dissolved in the mind.”
― Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin
― Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study : Beginning to Begin
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