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The More Sincerity Is Developed, The Greater Share Of Truth You Will Have. And However Much Sincerity A Person May Have, There Is Always A Gap To Fill, For We Live In The Midst Of Falsehood, And We Are Always Apt To Be Carried Away By This World Of Falsehood. Therefore We Must Never Think We Are Sincere Enough, And We Must Always Be On Our Guard Against Influences Which May Carry Us Away From That Sincerity Which Is The Bridge Between Ourselves And Our Ideal. No Study, No Meditation Is More Helpful Than Sincerity Itself.

His Constant Fight Is With The Nafs (self-interest), The Root Of All Disharmony And The Only Enemy Of Man. By Crushing This Enemy Man Gains Mastery Over Himself; This Wins For Him Mastery Over The Whole Universe, Because The Wall Standing Between The Self And The Almighty Has Been Broken Down. Gentleness, Mildness, Respect, Humility, Modesty, Self-denial, Conscientiousness, Tolerance And Forgiveness Are Considered By The Sufi As The Attributes Which Produce Harmony Within One's Own Soul As Well As Within That Of Another.

If There Is Such A Thing As Saintly Renunciation, It Is Renouncing Small Gains For Better Gains; Not For No Gains, But Seeing With Open Eyes What Is Better And What Is Inferior. Even If The Choice Has To Lie Between Two Momentary Gains, One Of These Would Always Be Found To Be More Real And Lasting; That Is The One That Should Be Followed For The Time.

For The Value Of Everything Exists For Man Only So Long As He Does Not Understand It. When He Has Fully Understood, The Value Is Lost, Be It The Lowest Thing Or The Highest Thing.

Externally We Are A Single Being, But Internally We Are A World.