A Certain Person May Have, As You

One Can Give Or Withhold In A Manner Far More Effective, Sophisticated, Useful, Which Is Quite Invisible To People Who Think That Giving Or Withholding Is Done By External Assessment. If You Seek Some Mark Of Favour Or 'promotion', Know That You Are Not Ready For It. Progress Comes Through Capacity To Learn, And Is Irresistible. Nobody Can Stand Between You And Knowledge If You Are Fit For It.

Christian Scholars Often Say That Sufi Theories Are Close To Those Of Christianity. Many Moslems Maintain That They Are Essentially Derived From Islam. The Resemblance Of Many Sufi Ideas To Those Of Several Religious And Esoteric Systems Are Sometimes Taken As Evidence Of Derivation. The Islamic Interpretation Is That Religion Is Of One Origin, Differences Being Due To Local Or Historical Causes.

Many Things Which Are Called 'secrets' Are Only Things Withheld From People Until They Can Understand Or Effectively Experience Them.

If You Give What Can Be Taken, You Are Not Really Giving. Take What You Are Given, Not What You Want To Be Given. Give What Cannot Be Taken.

The Chicken Had His Wish, And Was Magically Transformed Into A Fox. Then He Found That He Could Not Digest Grain.