O man of double vision, hearken with attention:

Seek a cure for your defective sight by listening. Many are the holy words that find no entrance into blind hearts, but they enter hearts full of light. But the deceits of Satan enter crooked hearts, even as crooked shoes fit crooked feet. Though you repeat pious expressions again and again, if you are a fool, they affect you not at all. Nay, not [even] though you set them down in writing, and [even] though you proclaim them vauntingly. Wisdom averts its face from you, O man of sin, wisdom breaks away from you and takes to flight!

~ RUMI ~