Wisdom of East III

1. Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.
2. People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.
3. Physiologically less violent and psychologically more suitable to a concrete type of mind.
4. Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.
5. Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions… Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.
6. Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten to a mirror, like a rose I pluck my breast apart, that I may hang This mirror in your sight.
7. The Ego is partly free. Partly determined, and reaches fuller freedom by approaching the Individual who is most free: God.
8. The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
9. Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self-preserving we may dwell.
10. Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.
11. Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.