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"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."
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"If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!"

"Don't always deprive yourself trying to please others."

"Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness."

"The absolute value of being neutral is zero."

"But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise, you'll never really enjoy it when things go right."
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"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."


"It is experience which teaches, not controversy based on supposed logic and assumptions of what is likely to be true."


"Sufism is always systematised only for limited or transitory periods: because Sufism is primarly instrumental, not for enjoyment or display."
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