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#1

“A man must be a Solomon before his magical ring will work”
― Idries Shah, Sufi Thought and Action: An Anthology of Important Papers

tags: hafiz, king-solomon, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#2

“Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others;
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected;
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it;
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences;
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind;
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#3

“Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#4

“Humans are born, they live, then they die, this is the order that the gods have decreed. But until the end comes, enjoy your life, spend it in happiness, not despair. Savor your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.”
― Anonymous, Gilgamesh

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#5

“حمّل صاحب الخطيئة وزر خطيئته
وحمّل المعتدِيْ إثم اعتدائه
ولكن كن رحيماً في العقابِ لئلا يهلك ولا تهمله فيمعن في الشرّ”
― طه باقر, ملحمة كلكامش أوديسة العراق الخالدة

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#6

“Death is a mystery and must always remain such.”
― Anonymous, The Epic of Gilgamesh

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#7

“Gilgamesh, where are you roaming? You will never find the eternal life that you seek. When the gods created mankind, they also created death, and they held back eternal life for themselves alone. Humans are born, they live, then they die, this is the order that the gods have decreed. But until the end comes, enjoy your life, spend it in happiness, not despair. Savour your food, make each of your days a delight, bathe and anoint yourself, wear bright clothes that are sparkling clean, let music and dancing fill your house, love the child who holds you by the hand, and give your wife pleasure in your embrace. That is the best way for a man to live.”
― Stephen Mitchell, The Epic of Gilgamesh

tags: ancient, gilgamesh, life-advice

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#8

“People justify their own subservience to pleasure by citing men and women of the past who allegedly did the same things they are doing.”
― Ibn Khaldun, THE MUQADDIMAH: An Introduction to History

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#9

“Muhammad said: Every infant is born in the natural state. It is his parents who make him a Jew or a Christian or a heathen.”
― Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

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#10

“The real man wants two different things: danger and play. Therefore he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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#11

“People travel to wonder
at the height of the mountains,
at the huge waves of the seas,
at the long course of the rivers,
at the vast compass of the ocean,
at the circular motion of the stars,
and yet they pass by themselves
without wondering. ”
― Saint Augustine

tags: spiritual

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#12

“Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?”
― Augustine of Hippo

tags: catholic, catholic-author, catholicism, science

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#13

“Sometimes it is the people no one can imagine anything of who do the things no one can imagine.”
― Alan Turing

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#14

“If any of the great avatars - Buddha, Jesus, Khrishna, Mohammed - were present in human form on this planet today, what would they be doing? I doubt they would be posting selfies.⁠”
― Anthon St. Maarten

tags: age-of-narcissism, ascended-masters, avatars, gurus, modern-spirituality, narcissism, prophets, selfies, social-media-addiction, superficial-culture

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#15

“Dare to think!”
― Immanuel Kant, What is Enlightenment?

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#16

“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, "What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: anger, ego, misinterpretation, misunderstand, misunderstandings, overthinking, pain, perception, perspective, questions, reading-into-everything, reading-into-things, second-quessing, self-esteem, self-improvement

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#17

“Your partner may have injuries that you can't repair. Your partner may be trapped in a dark room without windows. Your life narrative might bring him more relief than an opiate. Some people make better windows than windows. Your kind words and enlightened perspective is a window of wonders to someone living in pain.”
― Michael Ben Zehabe, Song of Songs: The Book for Daughters

tags: darkness, divorce, injuries, marital-problems, marriage, newlywed, separation, song-of-solomon, song-of-songs, suicide

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#18

“Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation.”
― Ibn Khaldun, The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

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#19

“The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.”
― Carl Sagan

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#20

“You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”
― Nina LaCour, Hold Still

tags: friendship, love, reason, regret, suicide

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#21

“Those who know do not talk And talkers do not know.”—Tao Te Ching”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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#22

“In the course of your journey it is most likely that your day-to-day companions or friends may change. Some may fall away as your interest in the Spirit pulls you from the worldly interest which brought or kept you together, but new friends who share your current interests will appear. Of”
― Ram Dass, Be Here Now

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#23

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: life, philosophy

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#24

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#25

“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#26

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

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#27

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

tags: help-others

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#28

“The world says: "You have needs -- satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: destructiveness, greed, materialism, needs, selfishness, vice

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#29

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bounty, conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, inspirational, man, need

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#30

“The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all effective propaganda must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in slogans until the last member of the public understands what you want him to understand by your slogan.”
― Adolf Hitler

tags: big-lie, propaganda, repetition

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