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"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one."
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"Materialistic perception of life makes us spiritually shortsighted."
"Beauty is only there when you have the ability to see and appreciate it."
"Close your eyes to see the world with your imaginative mind."
"Light wears out the eyes but does not wear out the soul."
"What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you."
"Maya (deceit) means that one cannot see the nature of things as they are but sees them in a different form."
"We each project to others a reflection of the world which includes our choices of perception."
"If your life is founded on what you can see then your success will be insignificant and very brief."
"We do not actually know other nations, we only know our judgements."
"The essential Not-self could be perceived very clearly in things and in livingcreatures on the hither side of good and evil. In human beings it was visible only when they were inrepose, their minds untroubled, their bodies motionless."
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"If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method."
"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
"Religion, for instance, cannot be accepted or rejected out of hand, until the student knows exactly what religion means."
"When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all."
"Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity."
"To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides."
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