The man who knows must discharge a function. The one who does not, cannot arrogate one to himself; he can only try to do so.
There is no wisdom where there is no common sense: it cannot under those conditions find any expression.
None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
You have come a long way, and you do not know it. You have a long way to go, and you do know what that means.
Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.
You can learn more in half an hour's direct contact with a source of knowledge (no matter the apparent reason for the contact or the subject of the transaction) than you can in years of formal effort.
It is a Sufi contention that truth is not discovered or maintained by the mere repetition of teachings. It can only be kept understood by the perpetual experience of it. And it is in the experience of truth that the Sufis have always reposed their trust. Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
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