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“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: human-kind, secrets, sufis, sufism

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“No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#3

“Learning without action is like wax without honey.
(Anwar-i-Suhaili)”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism

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#4

“Even if false gold makes a man happy:
At the mint it will be identified.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: knowledge, rumi, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#5

“Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: enlightenment, sufis, sufism, truth

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#6

“Death
If he is a good man, death will be a release;
If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: death, evolution, facts, sufis, sufism

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#7

“No colour comes after black.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#8

“THE HEAVENS
To the mallet of the Highest Mind
The heavens are the smallest possible ball.
(Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#9

“One lie will keep out forty truths.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#10

“Poor greedy one, wherever he runs
He's after food, and death is after him.
(Saadi)”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: greed, psychology, saadi, sufis, sufism

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#11

“Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: patience, proverb, psychology, sufis, sufism, wisdom

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#12

“Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: proverb, sufis, sufism

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#13

“Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.”
― Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

tags: evolution, learning, proverb, saadi, sufis, sufism, time, wisdom

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#14

“A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.”
― Nelson Mandela

tags: education, goodness, intelligence, kindness, scholarship

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#15

“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
― Richard Feynmann

tags: curiosity, learning, scholarship

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#16

“Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire.”
― Slavoj Žižek

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#17

“To be a scholar study math, to be a smart study magic.”
― Amit Kalantri

tags: academics, amit-kalantri, amit-kalantri-quotes, amit-kalantri-writer, art-of-magic, clever, conjurer, conjuring, creativity, illusionists, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, intelligence, intelligent, magic, magic-tricks, magician, magicians, math, mathematics, mentalist, motivational-quotes, performing-arts, philosophy, scholar, scholarship, smart, study

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#18

“If you come to me but do not put my teachings into practice you would only be a nuisance to the audience. As long as you are in your shop, you continue to think of your failing business, and when you come to me it is only to comfort yourself. No matter how many times you come to listen, it is as if you heard nothing. O property owner! Forget about your property and come and sit among the poor and be humble to Allah and to them”
― Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani

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#19

“The ultimate division of humanity will be into three categories and not just two - people bound for Hell,
people bound for Paradise,
and, out of the latter,
people closest to Allah.
(Quran: Al-Waqia 7-11)”
― Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani

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#20

“Ask your Lord for a physician who can treat the illnesses of your hearts, a healer who can heal you, a guide who can guide you and take you by the hand.

Hazrat Shaykh Sayyid Abdul Kadir Gilani (RA)”
― Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani

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#21

“Listen to your heart and not your ego. Your ego prompts you to boast of vain assertions to obtain the glory of this world. Turn away from vanity and seek Him in the recesses of your heart and soul.”
― Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani

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#22

“Look towards that person who looks towards you. Love that person that loves you, listen to that person that listens to you and give your hands in his hands that are prepared to grasp it.”
― Hazrat Abdul Qadir Jilani

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#23

“You think of yourself
as a citizen of the universe.
You think you belong
to this world of dust and matter.
Out of this dust
you have created a personal image,
and have forgotten
about the essence of your true origin”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

tags: inspirational, iran, persian-poetry, rumi, rumi-poetry

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#24

“Lovers find secret places
inside this violent world
where they make transactions
with beauty.”
― Rumi

tags: persian-poetry, poetry, rumi, rumi-poetry

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#25

“I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
And answer'd: 'I Myself am Heav'n and Hell”
― Omar Khayyam

tags: heaven-and-hell, life, persian-poetry, poetry

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#26

“Woman is the light of God.”
― Rumi

tags: god, persian, persian-poetry, religion, rumi, rumi-poetry, women

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#27

“A wealth you cannot imagine
flows through you.
Do not consider what strangers say.
Be secluded in your secret heart-house,
that bowl of silence.”
― Rumi

tags: persian-poetry, poetry, rumi

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#28

“The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.”

The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.”

The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?”
― Rumi

tags: persian-poetry, rumi

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#29

“Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.”
― Omar Khayyam

tags: persian-poetry, rubiayat, wisdom

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#30

“Farsi Couplet:
Mun tu shudam tu mun shudi,mun tun shudam tu jaan shudi
Taakas na guyad baad azeen, mun deegaram tu deegari

English Translation:
I have become you, and you me,
I am the body, you soul;
So that no one can say hereafter,
That you are someone, and me someone else.”
― Amir Khusrau, The Writings of Amir Khusrau: 700 Years After the Prophet: A 13th-14th Century Legend of Indian-Sub-Continent

tags: amirkhusro, farsi, indian-authors, love-quotes, mysticism, mysticism-sufi-wisdom, persian-poetry

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