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"Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words."
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"Even a whale is concealed by darkness."
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"We cannot humanize the fact that the story was penned to have the eternal God, Who Himself knows no beginning nor is in need of one, choose to experience a beginning. That is genius in and of itself."
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"If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?"
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"Success is the shyest creature, blushes when you court it, jilts you when you propose to it, reneges later and perhaps blushes again."
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"I can call spirits from the vasty deep."Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they come when you do call for them?"
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"Leave some mystery to the world and they will remember you forever."
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"Time travel? I believe there are people regularly travelling back from the future and interfering with our lives on a daily basis. The evidence is all around us. I'm talking about how every time we make an insurance claim we discover that somehow mysteriously the exact thing we're claiming for is now precisely excluded from our policy."
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"In fact, Lig never formally resigned his editorship-he merely left his office late one morning, and has never returned since. Though well over a century has now passed, many members of the Guide staff still retain the romantic notion that he has simply popped out for a sandwich and will yet return to put in a solid afternoon's work. Strictly speaking, all editors since Lig Lury Jr., have therefore been designated acting editors, and Lig's desk is still preserved the way he left it, with the addition of a small sign that says LIG LURY, JR., EDITOR, MISSING, PRESUMED FED."
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"She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire."
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"An eerie atmosphere leeched from the soot-damaged walls. It was as if the house had died, and yet she felt she belonged here. It was as if the old place wanted to claim her from the grave."
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"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"
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"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
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"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
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"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."
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"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
Aging
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."
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"Three things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam."
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"A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE: Tell me what to do, but it must be what I want you to tell me."
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"It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere."
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"When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?"
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