Traits of the True Sufi. {119.}

Traits of the True Sufi. {119.}
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“What makes the Sufi? Purity of heart;
Not the patched mantle and the lust perverse
Of those vile earth-bound men who steal his name.
He in all dregs discerns the essence pure:
In hardship ease, in tribulation joy.
The phantom sentries, who with batons drawn
Guard Beauty’s place-gate and curtained bower,
Give way before him, unafraid he passes,
And showing the King’s arrow, enters in.”

---- Jalaluddin Rumi.
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Constantly Guard against Your Senses. {13.}

Constantly Guard against Your Senses. {13.}
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“And as a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind,
even one of the senses on which the mind focuses
can carry away a person’s intelligence.”

---- The Bhagavad Gita; 2:67.
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