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"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say."
"Your Misunderstanding creates your Understanding!"
"When the vision becomes right [correct], one sees only his own faults and when the vision is wrong [incorrect], he sees others at fault."
"Sometimes, how others look at it must not be how you should see it! Sometimes, how it means to others must not be how it should mean to you! Sometimes in life, things must have a different meaning to you, but positively; then you may be able to understand people and the mission, and accomplish the vision, with a good sense humor, seriousness and understanding, insight and wit, tenacity and distinctiveness, to the very end of your true strength!"
"Self-knowledge is the greatest kind of knowledge."
"I will meet you in that gap where consciousness meets unconsciousness."
"When sheep grow blind, it is only wolves that rejoice."
"Nothing is perfect, nothing is imperfect. Perfection and imperfection reside in your perception."
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"Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes."
"The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?"
"If a pot can multiply. One day Nasrudin lent his cooking pots to a neighbour, who was giving a feast. The neighbour returned them, together with one extra one " a very tiny pot. 'What is this?' asked Nasrudin. 'According to law, I have given you the offspring of your property which was born when the pots were in my care,' said the joker. Shortly afterwards Nasrudin borrowed his neighbour's pots, but did not return them. The man came round to get them back. 'Alas!' said Nasrudin, 'they are dead. We have established, have we not, that pots are mortal?'."
"The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so."
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