A man in full

A man in full doesn’t want anything. Or, put another way, he wants what he has; he doesn’t want what he doesn’t have. Men in full are easy to overlook. They’re very quiet.  

Utopia

If the twinned inherencies of greed (I want) and selfishness (me and mine) were suddenly eliminated, we would find ourselves in a heavenly realm.

The root of all evil

In the West, we reward ambition. From a Sufi perspective, it’s a disease. Rumi: “All of our suffering results from raw greed and from the desires of the self and its itching palate.”

What he wants

The ambitions of a man who knows exactly what he wants are perforce low and limited.

Rules of conduct

No swearing. No spitting. Also: Don’t want anything. And don’t fear anything.