"People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man."

Awareness, Experience, Ordinary, Perception

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"People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man."

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"Correct teaching brings out human excellence."

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"Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything. Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi."

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"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."

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