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“You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.”
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“A bird named Vlad the Impaler, who spent the bulk of his life hissing and looking at himself in a little mirror hanging[...] in the iron cage, a mirror so dull and cloudy with Vlad the Impaler’s bird-spit that Vlad the Impaler could not possibly have seen anything more than a vague yellowish blob behind a pane of mist[...] A bird that not infrequently literally bit the hand that fed it, before returning to dance in front of its own shapeless reflection, straining and contorting always for a better view of itself.”
― The Broom of the System
― The Broom of the System
“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”
― Valis
― Valis
“When no one is looking,
I swallow deserts and clouds
and chew on mountains
knowing they are sweet bones!
When no one is looking
and I want to kiss God,
I just lift my own hand to my mouth.”
― The Rubaiyat of Hafiz
I swallow deserts and clouds
and chew on mountains
knowing they are sweet bones!
When no one is looking
and I want to kiss God,
I just lift my own hand to my mouth.”
― The Rubaiyat of Hafiz
“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”
― Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
― Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers
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