“Never think of anyone as inferior to you. Open the inner Eye and you will see the One Glory shining in all creatures.”

— Dhul-Nun al-Misri

Quoted in Ellen Kei Hua, ed., Meditations of the Masters, cited in Andrea Wiebers and David Wiebers, Souls Like Ourselves (Rochester, MN: Sojourn Press, 2000), p. 42.

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