Never promise, even by implication, without fulfilling your promise. The only acceptable alternative to completing an undertaking is to over-fulfil it. To betray any promise, explicit or otherwise, will harm you more than it can harm anyone else.
Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on.
#muhammad
I will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages. #Sufism #Rabia
THE ANSWER
idriesshahfoundation.org/?s=nasrudin&lang=en #sufism #humour #nasrudin
P: ¿Debe un estudiante ocuparse siempre de trivialidades, como se menciona a menudo en los escritos Sufis?
R: Hay un dicho: “Si buscas pequeñas cosas que hacer y las haces bien, grandes cosas te buscarán y exigirán que las realices.”
El buscador de la verdad
Léelo gratis, aquí:
idriesshahfoundation.org/es/libros/el-buscador-de-la-verdad/
THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE Numbers and the Making of Us There are predictable numbers in nature, but we humans have an innate, “exact” number sense for numbers only up to three. Beyond three, we can tell when groups of objects are more than or less than one another, but the exact numerical correspondences between quantities are concepts we have to learn. Anthropologist Caleb Everett suggests that “numbers” or “the words and other symbols for specific quantities” are “a key set of linguistically based innovations that has distinguished our species in ways that have been underappreciated. … They have reshaped the human experience.” www.humanjourney.us/numbers-and-the-making-of-us/
"...it is one of the better examples in recent years of important scientific research on the nature of reality and of ourselves finding its way through to the mainstream. Ill-defined ideas about the two hemispheres of the brain can now be replaced by more specific ones which, importantly, have a significant bearing on where we are today and where we might be heading."
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First published in 2009, The Master and his Emissary is a landmark in studies on the two hemispheres of the brain, and how their different modes of interacting with reality