Evolution Quotes - Page 12

Patience is the food of understanding.

None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

When people believe that the form is more important than the Truth, they will not find truth, but will stay with form.

if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity

Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.

One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.

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.

When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.

Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

Worry is a cloud which rains destruction.

How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as low as that possessed by the lowest animal, be trusted when it draws such grand conclusions?

Saadi’s dictum, in the Bostan: ‘The Path is not in the rosary, the prayer-mat and the robe

HE is a Master who may teach without it being totally labelled teaching; HE is a student who can learn without being obsessed by learning.

Remember that greed includes greed for being not greedy.

If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed.

The next stage of evolution is the evolution of perception, the evolution of the mind.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.