...Wizard's Fifth Rule: Mind what people do, not only what they say, for deeds will betray a lie.
Interpretation
Observing actions reveals more truth than listening to words alone.
This quote emphasizes the importance of paying attention to people's actions rather than their words. It suggests that while individuals may verbalize intentions or beliefs, their true character and honesty are revealed through their behavior and choices. Therefore, one should be mindful of deeds, as they often expose underlying truths that words may conceal.
In practice
During a team meeting, you might remind colleagues of this quote to emphasize the value of reliable actions over promises.
Those who either from imprudence or want of sagacity avoid doing so, are always overwhelmed with servitude and poverty; for faithful servants are always servants, and honest men are always poor; nor do any ever escape from servitude but the bold and faithless, or from poverty, but the rapacious and fraudulent.
Don't bring negative to my door.
It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn't matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years - we turn on the light and it is illuminated. Once we control our capacity for love and happiness, the light has been turned on.
Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining.
I am growing more and more aware that all too often we preachers aim at nothing and hit it.
Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.
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