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"Reading doesn't mean accepting everything you read, it means reasoning everything you read."
"Experience is a master teacher, even when it's not our own."
"Curiosity killed the cat, but not before teaching her that honey bees are not sweet, tweeting birds are slow to react, mice can serve as both toys and food, big dogs like to snuggle, falling isn't flying, cream drips from lazy cows, water should be avoided at all costs, baths don't require getting wet, kindness and cruelty often fall from the same hand, and engines remain comfortably warm long after the motor dies."
"In scriptures, there is knowledge about the different methods; the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul] is not there. 'Gnani' has the knowledge about the goal [to attain Pure Soul]. Knowledge about the goal, which is the Soul, is obtained as a result of the 'Gnani's' grace."
"Lack teaches you the importance of what you are lacking."
"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
"Without experience, how will you know what exist?"
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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."
"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."
"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
"The Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not."
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