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Imagination blocks you like a bolt on a door. Burn that bar. (Rumi)
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Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the first one.
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When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?
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The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.
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Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.
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One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
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Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.
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Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
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Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.
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