Andaka was asked:
— Understanding and kindness are part of the Sufi Path; why should there be anything else there other than love and beauty; Why, for example, should there be knowledge and the passage of time? And things like doubts and comments?
He replied:
— To ripen a peach, sun and water are needed. Have you seen what happens when the blessed sun shines too long or too strong? It becomes a devastating disaster. Water the plant correctly, and the water will be a true benefit for it. Water it too often, and the plant will inevitably begin to rot and experience severe pain, which will cause it to consider water not a blessing, but an instrument of destruction.
Give a person continually what he calls kindness, and you will exhaust him so much that he will become unhappy. Fail to make a timely remark when such criticism could have a corresponding impact on him, and you were mistaken.
Refuse to support these positions as possible, and you will not actually ask the questions you think you have asked.