"If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things."

Humility, Life, Help, Success

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"If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things."

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"The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him."

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"Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame."

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"The important place held by Jesus among the world's six hundred million Moslems... and the agreement of both religions about the necessity for surrender to God as the means of salvation, thus makes it comparatively easy for a Moslem to address himself to Christians: the sympathy and the history are already there."

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"When we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief."

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"Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots."

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"To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes."

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"SAYING OF SHEIKH ZIAUDIN:Self-justification is worse than the original offence."

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"Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?"

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"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."

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"Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism."

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"Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society."

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