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Attar of Nishapur
“Judge
not
Hold
your tongue
Avoid
fanaticism
Make the path your only purpose”
attar

Attar of Nishapur
“the destroyer of ego. When the ego is annihilated, the inner eye blinks open.”
Attar of Nishapur, The Conference of the Birds

Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
“He who has led you so far will guide you further.”
Rumi

Robert A. Johnson
“No son ever develops into manhood without, in some way, being disloyal to his mother. If he remains with her, to comfort her and console her, then he never gets out of his mother complex. Often a mother will do all she can to keep her son with her. One of the most subtle ways is to encourage him the idea of being loyal to her; but if he gives in to her completely then she often finds herself with a son severely injured in his masculinity.

The son must ride off and leave his mother, even if it appears to mean disloyalty, and the mother must bear this pain. Later, like Parsifal, the son may come back to the mother and they may find a new relationship, on a new level; but this can only be done after the son has first achieved his independence and transferred his affection to a woman, either in an interior way with his own inner feminine side or in an exterior way with a real female companion of his own age.

In our myth, Parsifal's mother died when he left. Perhaps she represents the kind of woman who can only exist as a mother, who dies when this role is taken from her because she does not understand how to be an individual woman, but only a "mother.”
Robert A. Johnson, He: Understanding Masculine Psychology

Elif Shafak
“This world is erected upon the principle of reciprocity. Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated. Fear not the plots, deceptions, or tricks of other people. If somebody is setting a trap, remember, so is God. He is the biggest plotter. Not even a leaf stirs outsides God's knowledge. Simply and fully believe in that. Whatever God does, He does beautifully.”
Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love

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