We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality, " but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
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 William Peter Blatty
We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops---which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be...
Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.
The child was slender as fleeting hope.
Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God.
God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials.
