Anybody Or Anything May Stand

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.

But One May Say Something And Yet Not Be Able To Do It. Try, For Instance, Lifting Yourself Up By The Bootstraps.

The Laziness Of Adolescence Is A Rehearsal For The Incapacity Of Old Age.

The Sufis Believe That They Can Experience Something More Complete.

When People Have A Hard Task To Do - One Which Stretches Them - They Become Less Concerned With Trivial Matters.