Quotes About Clarity

Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.

When a belief becomes more than an instrument, you are lost. You remain lost until you learn what 'belief' is really for.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

People are always trying to understand. There is only one way to do that. It is to discover < + i + >why< + i + > you want to understand.

People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think they know.

When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge

The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

Show a man too many camels' bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

From a personal experience and the examination of literature, I feel that we cannot take for granted that a dialogue, without information and perhaps without understanding, is possible between any individuals or groups on all levels. So the prerequisite is information.

Study institutions may become visible when the head is more emptied of imaginings.

The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms; Truth has no form.

EXPECTATION If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

One of the basic Sufi needs is to enable people to see themselves as they really are.

When you are still fragmentated, lacking certainty — what difference does it make what your decisions are?

The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

Lo Aparente es el Puente hacia lo Real'.

Junaid de Bagdad pasaba por la escena de un ahorcamiento público, donde un ladrón se encontraba en el patíbulo. Junaid se inclinó en dirección al criminal. Alguien le preguntó: "¿Por qué hiciste eso?" Junaid dijo: "Me estaba inclinando ante la claridad de sus intenciones. Por su objetivo, ese hombre ha dado su vida.

La sabiduría es cuando entiendes lo que previamente, y en el mejor de los casos, sabías.

Saying of the Prophet Objects It is your attachment to objects which make you blind and deaf.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.

El color del agua parece ser del color del vaso dentro del cual ha sido vertido'.