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"To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions, and not to try to avoid what is your lot."
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"With self discipline, self study is possible."

"The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy."

"At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey."

"Remain true to the earth, my brethren, with the power of your virtue! Let your bestowing love and your knowledge be devoted to be the meaning of the earth! . . . Let it not fly away from the earthly and beat against eternal walls with its wings. . . . Lead, like me, the flown-away virtue back to the earth-yes, back to body and life: that it may give to the earth its meaning, a human meaning!"

"The mind is the sacred centre of all attraction."
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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."


"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."


"To comprehend the world around you, first, comprehend yourself."


"To understand, one must first question everything."


"The real challenge is to develop the capacity to see the world as it really is."


"If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken."


"To seek the truth, you must first recognize that you do not know."
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