Book: Favorite aphorisms

- What is the main obstacle for the expansion of consciousness? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
Is the illusion that it is similar to the oyster, - said the sage. In fact, consciousness is like the ocean, the surface of which flicker of colorful fish Everyday Thoughts, and deep slowly and majestically float a giant whale Scientific Theories and octopuses Philosophical Concepts.

- When we can say that the person awakens the religious sense? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
When his camel Domestic Debt becomes a bore to feed the waterfall Personal Success in the grove of the Acquired Virtues, explained the sage, and the person is ready to cross the desert Asceticism and ascend to the ridge of self-denial, in the snowy tops of which eagles make nests of the knowledge of God.

- What dispassion is different from senseless? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
Glacier of Dispassion is located high in the mountains of the Ridge of self-denial, explained sage. The road to it lies across the lake Personal Modesty, lying on a plateau of Emotional Balance. And Varan Excess is found in the shifting Sands of Personal Pity the hot desert of Total Selfishness.

Teacher! How do I reconnect to my source of Pure Spirituality? asked Khoja Nasreddin young mystic.
- Severing the vines of Attachment and come in a way of Meditation from the jungle of Worldly Passions, suggested Hodge. - Visit the gorge of Proud Loneliness and the pass of Rebellion; bathe in lake Personal Modesty and crossing the desert of Asceticism, not trusting in the illusions of Executable Desires. Proplyne the river of Creativity from its source on the glacier to the mouth of Dispassion in the ocean of Nirvana, having escaped the fangs of the Hippo Dull Diligence and without losing his head at the waterfall Personal Success. Once a year to the ocean, the eagle of the knowledge of God, which on his back and carry you to your desired goal.

Khoja Nasreddin asked what the difference between philosophers and scientists.
Hodge said:
- In relation to the truth. Philosophers being hunted, scientists eat.

- Who should learn humility? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- God, created this world, ' replied the sage. - It is to an extent not insisted on the authorship of that even atheists leave food for their error.

Whether the religious person's duty and conscience? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- Conscience is the sand man sprinkles very slippery rung of the Ladder of knowledge of God, - replied the sage - and duty - railing of this Staircase.

- About one person saying he's an empty dreamer, about the other - that he had a powerful imagination. What is the difference? asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- Imagine a weary traveler, slowly wandering in the hot desert without a drop of water, suggested Hodge.
The students presented.
- Now think what he wants.
The disciples thought.
"So," explained the Hodja, your traveler visionary, and his dream is fantastic.

- What to do with constantly eroding the soul with doubt? - student asked Khoja Nasreddin.
Hodge said:
- Ask macaque Profanity arm with the axe of Common Sense and cut at the root of the palm of your Pride. The ultimate success she gets, but thoroughly promotee and partly humanize.

Is the path that I choose, never satisfied, complained to Khoja Nasreddin student. - Making it two steps, I feel its falsity.
Lizard your question is too snug in the Swamp of Thought, - said Hodge. - Coconuts pelted her Personal worth with the palm of your Pride.

- Why the Laws of Being so deeply hidden from the people? asked Nasreddin Hodja is the philosopher.
While you're floundering in the Sea of Life on the waves Ordinary Sense, the wind of Worldly Temptations splashing you in the eye with foam Misconceptions with the ridges of Personal Selfishness, so to see the Bottom of Existence difficult, explained Nasreddin.

- Explain to us what philosophy is - asked the disciples of Hodja Nasreddin.
- Philosophy is the art of understanding, - said Hodge. - Look, for example, on my donkey. From the point of view of passers-by, I ride on it. I myself, given its nature, I believe that much more he rides me. But from a philosophical point of view, we indistinguishable the predicates as horse riding.

- Isn't self-knowledge a kind of self-centeredness? asked Khoja Nasreddin's neighbor.
- The higher "I" recognizes all ways of knowing yourself - said Hodge - and ego thing: narcissism.

- Closed the way to God for man, indifferent to their loved ones? asked Khoja Nasreddin.
Close is not the only way to God, - replied the sage - but very close.