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The Magic Monastery
Cat Think
The Self-Congratulating Fruit
Greed, Obligement and Impossibility
Delusion
Cat and Rabbit
An Answer of Humanyun Adil
The Disease
The Son of a Beggar
Three Epocks
A Sufi of Pamiristan
Last Day
Vine Thought
Appearances
Disguise
Eating and Wonderment
Pitcher Lore
Exercises
Nectar
Absurdities
Onions
Tokens
The Ass
The Method
Nuts
Visitors
Thirsty
The Realm
Vanity
Destitution
Where It Starts
Statistic
Night and Morning
Man and Animal
Obvious
Prisoner
Characdteristics
Theoretician
Catharsis
Fantasy
Kindness
Misjudged
Scratching
The Oatland Story
Zaky and the Dove
Grass Prospects
The Mirror, the Cup, and the Goldsmith
The Onion
Time
The Wand
The Sun and the Lamps
The Goat
The Imbecile Teacher
The Fool
Transaction
The Fish and the Water
Mouseolatry
Six Lives in One
Opposition
Scientific Advance
Service
The Tristomachic Survival
Tiger
Please Do This
Sting
Contradictions
The Fruit
The Slave Sufi
Unlikely Legend
Surroundings
The Outline
The Difference
The Crystal
Selfishness
Experience
The Botanists: Land without Medicine
Worse
Money
Evaluate
In Due Season
Radios
The Young Sufi
The Magical Book
The Man
Psychoanthropological Report
Frivolous
Stop Og Now...
Five Thousand
The Man and the Snail
The Doorkeeper
The Letter of Thanks
The Knife
The Elixir
The Lion
The Certificate
Cheese for Choice
Hidden Hand
City of Storms
People
What to Shun
Posture
The Killer
Magician
Visitors' Information
Cheetahs and Awarts
Ant Research
Duty
The Right Man
Burdens
The Wisest Tiger
The Wrong Department
Expectations
Personal Wisdom
How Can It Mean Anything?
Economics
Two Pilgrims
Service
The Boy and the Wolf
Literature
Legend of the Nightingale
Inner Senses
Grain
Mistakes
Mixed Behavior
Difficulty
The Greatest Vanity
Secret Teaching
Working Together
A House to which the Key is Lost
Hali in Converse with an Inquirer
The Observances
The Cupboard
What Has to Be
Generous and Humble
Books and Sages
Two Scholars and a Sufi
Command
Incurring Blame
Success
Three Possible Reasons
Healing
Dialogue
Meatballs
At the Crossroads
Poems
Discernment
Camels and Bridges
Interchange
Mosquitoes
How to Become a Thief
A Thousandth Part
The Aim of the Nightingale
Abstention
An Obscure Scholar
Confined Thinking
The Outward and the Inward
