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Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible.
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it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
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But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.
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Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.
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When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.
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You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.
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There is a saying that, according to what a person's mentality is, even an angel may seem to him to have a devil's face.
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The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
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The person that you feel yourself to be, according to the Sufis, is a false person, which has no true reality.
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