When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
Idries ShahThe Sufi is One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Idries ShahThere is a succession of experiences which together constitute the educational and developmental ripening of the learner, according to the Sufis. People who think that each gain is the goal itself will freeze at any such stage, and cannot learn through successive and superseding lessons.
Idries Shah