The Learned Person Who Only Talks Will

If A Pot Can Multiply. One Day Nasrudin Lent His Cooking Pots To A Neighbour, Who Was Giving A Feast. The Neighbour Returned Them, Together With One Extra One – A Very Tiny Pot. 'what Is This?' Asked Nasrudin. 'according To Law, I Have Given You The Offspring Of Your Property Which Was Born When The Pots Were In My Care,' Said The Joker. Shortly Afterwards Nasrudin Borrowed His Neighbour's Pots, But Did Not Return Them. The Man Came Round To Get Them Back. 'alas!' Said Nasrudin, 'they Are Dead. We Have Established, Have We Not, That Pots Are Mortal?'.

The More You Look At 'common Knowledge', The More You Realise That It Is More Likely To Be Common Than It Is To Be Knowledge. No Real Knowledge Is Common.

The Way Of The Sufis Cannot Be Understood By Means Of The Intellect Or By Ordinary Book Learning.

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 Are Very Ordinary Folk And Therefore Not Aware Of Anything Unknown To The General Run Of Man.

The Main Problem Is That Most Commentators Are Accustomed To Thinking Of Spiritual Schools As 'systems', Which Are More Or Less Alike, And Which Depend Upon Dogma And Ritual: And Especially Upon Repetition And The Application Of Continual And Standardised Pressures Upon Their Followers.the Sufi Way, Except In Degenerate Forms Which Are Not To Be Classified As Sufic, Is Entirely Different From This.