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One Of The Tragedies Of Modern Times Is That People Have Come To Believe That Something Said By Someone In The Past, Perhaps For Illustrative Or Provocation Purposes, Actually Represents That Person's Beliefs At The Time.

Scholars Of The East And West Have Heroically Consecrated Their Whole Working Lives To Making Available, By Means Of Their Own Disciplines, Sufi Literary And Philosophical Material To The World At Large. In Many Cases They Have Faithfully Recorded The Sufis' Own Reiteration That The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

People Used To Play With Toys. Now The Toys Play With Them.

You Must Empty Out The Dirty Water Before You Fill The Pitcher With Clean.

Effort Makes Some Great Men Famous. Even Greater Effort Enables Other Great Men To Remain Unknown.