promoción”, debes saber que no estás listo. El progreso llega a través de la capacidad de aprender, y es irresistible. Nadie puede interponerse entre tú y el conocimiento, si eres apto para éste.

Hit your hand on a stone and expect it to hurt.

Saying of the ProphetThe JudgeA man appointed to be a judge has been killed without a knife.

These lecture provide material for the consideration of common factors, in theory and in development, from the viewpoint of the idea of surrender to the Divine Will, reviewing some aspects of the interplay between Christians...

What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.

Show a man too many camels’ bones, or show them to him too often, and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one. (Mirza Ahsan of Tabriz)

If you cannot laugh frequently and genuinely, you have no soul.

The proverb says that ‘The answer to a fool is silence’. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.

Dicho del ProfetaMuerteMuere antes de tu muerte.

If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.

Definiciones de Mulla Do-PiazaSoborno: sustituye a la ley, la cual, a su vez, sustituye a la justicia.

Hay muchas personas caminando por las calles que en realidad están muertas; hay muchas en sus tumbas que están en realidad vivas.

Come lo que desees, pero vístete como el resto.

Ni imagines que eres falso, ni te azotes, pues ambas pueden ser formas de autocomplacencia.

Experiméntalo y conocerás”.

No trates de ser humilde: aprende la humildad.

Pereza – La pereza de la adolescencia es un ensayo para la incapacidad de la vejez.

La sabiduría que es invisible pero que sustenta es cien veces mejor que la apariencia de sabiduría, porque ésta tiene que ser sostenida.

Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.

To Him who has sense, a sign is enoughFor the heedless, however, a thousand expositions are not enough.

Remembering and ForgettingYou have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget.But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.

It is the message, not the man, which is important to the Sufis.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

Saying of the ProphetWomenWomen are the twin-halves of men.

Two people can illustrate crudity to you.The first is the crude man, whom you see perceiving the diamond as a stone.The other is the refined man, who makes clear to you the crudity of the...

orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

There is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any...

One cannot learn from someone whom one distrusts.

A man from the Land of Fools wanted to pull down the clouds.’Why?’ someone asked him.’To squeeze out the rain.

Dicho del ProfetaAmor,Crees que amas a tu Creador? Ama primero a tus semejantes

Aunque el oro falso haga feliz a un hombre, en la casa de la moneda será identificado.

Aprende acerca de las avispas, de aquéllos que han sido picados por ellas.

Non posso fidarmi”, finché è padrone dell’opzione di fidarsi o non fidarsi.

alguien que no se preocupa cuando le quitan algo, pero que no cesa de buscar lo que no tiene.

…muchos sistemas acaban convirtiendo la humildad imaginada en una forma de vanidad, de modo que acaban igualmente en vanidad.

El hombre impaciente es su propio enemigo, cierra de golpe la puerta de su propio progreso.

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia.

La preocupación es una nube de la que llueve destrucción.

Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.

People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they...

Voice in the nightA voice whispered to me last night: ‘There is no such thing as a voice whispering in the night!

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person’s beliefs at the...

Three ThingsThree things cannot be retrieved:The arrow once sped from the bowThe word spoken in hasteThe missed opportunity.(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),

They asked Abboud of Omdurman: ‘Which is better, to be young or to be old?’ He said: ‘To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to...

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because… they appeal to your greed.

Show a man too many camels’ bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.

It has truly been said that ‘Humility is not so much a virtue as a necessity, in order to learn.

Because there is a word for perfection, people will always imagine that they know it.

Dicho del ProfetaAlimentoNadie ha comido mejor alimento que el ganado mediante su propio esfuerzo.

Trata a este mundo como yo; como un caminante, un jinete que se detiene a la sombra de un árbol por un tiempo, y luego prosigue su camino.