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The Truly Enlightened
Mankind passes through three stages.
First he worships anything: man, woman, money, children, earth and stones.
Then, when he has progressed a little further, he worships God.
Finally he does not say: 'I worship God'; nor: 'I do not worship God.'
He has passed from the first two stages into the last.
-Rumi People think that a Sheikh should show miracles and manifest illumination.
The requirement in a teacher, however, is only that he should possess all that the disciple needs.
- Ibn El-Arabi (Shah 87).
The Enlightened becomes perfect only when all else is removed from in-between him and the Friend. Either he remains or the Friend.
- Khwaja Mu'inuddin Chishti
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
-Bertolt Brecht, The Mother
A man's accusations of himself are always believed; his praises of self never.
-Montaigne
Published on July 2, 2006 03:09 PM
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