Never for one minute have I taken you for reality .. . You are a lie, you are my illness, you are a phantom .. . You are my hallucination. You are the incarnation of myself .. . of my thoughts and feelings, but only the nastiest and stupidest of them.
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 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having...
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
The soul is healed by being with children.
I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
