Most of you guys can't see the potential in a nervous breakdown. A real collapse. There's more chance of finding yourself in a major depression than there is in a bottle Prozac.
One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.
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Idries Shah
The Sufis regard systems which treat everyone alike as mechanical and degenerate.
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Idries Shah
All literature, or most literature, is about sex." (A. Burgess)
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Blanche Bachelar
Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.
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Philip Rieff
No matter what I said they insisted on thinking of God as something outside themselves. Something that yearns to take every indolent moron to His breast and comfort him. The notion that the effort has to be their own .. . and that the trouble...
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Robert A. Heinlein
More Quotes By Keith Ablow
The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
Deep down, everyone wants the truth.
What was it about not knowing a person that allowed you to wonder whether she might be the answer to all your problems?
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces.
