Quotes About Perception

The best player of a game is the watcher — ask him.

it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.

when we are talking about 'Christians' and 'Moslems' we must first make sure that we are talking about people who have an idea, which should be more or less correct, as to what the other is supposed to believe and what he is expected to do as a consequence of that belief.

Whoever is to be wise despises himself. Only the ignorant trust their own judgement.

Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.

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.

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

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

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

People talk about 'service, effort, love, knowledge'. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.

Learn how much knowledge is needed before we can see how ignorant we are.

What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.

There is something in man which can detect real love. We rub it out, or muffle it, by substitute-love.

Knowledge. How curious that a man who closes his hand upon air so often thinks that he has a ruby within his grasp.

Much smoke has been seen, and caused great fear of fire — even when no fire ensued.

BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.

Lo Aparente es el Puente hacia lo Real'.

If you want to know what he's like — reverse what his opponents say.

Dicho del Mulá Nasrudín. Si sobrevivo a esta vida sin morirme, me sorprenderé. Las sutilezas del incomparable

Dramático. Un sentido bien desarrollado de lo dramático tiene valores que van más allá de lo que la gente generalmente imagina. Uno de éstos es darse cuenta de las limitaciones del sentido de lo dramático

Miracles, to the Sufi, are not evidential, they are instrumental.

El libro de la sabiduría. Simab dijo: "Venderé el libro de la sabiduría por cien piezas de oro, y algunos dirán que es barato." Yunus Marmar le dijo: "Y yo regalaré la llave para comprenderlo, y casi nadie la tomará, incluso aunque sea gratis.

The process of learning is the process of discovering what really exists.