Sunday, August 27, 2006

Wisdom: Do not form your obstinacy into an arrow

O man, do not form your obstinacy
Into an arrow to shoot at others.
It will turn back on you, and you yourself will receive the pain.
Use your wisdom to avoid that experience. If you hold up the
umbrella of serenity, you will bring tranquility to yourself and to
all lives.

Muhaiyaddeen, M.R. Bawa. The Golden Words of a Sufi Sheikh. Philadelphia:Fellowship Press, 1981,2006

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