“Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?”
“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.”
“Anyone can see that an ass laden with books remains a donkey. A human being laden with the undigested results of a tussle with thoughts and books, however, still passes for wise.”
“The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.”
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