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  • #1
    Idries Shah
    “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

  • #2
    Idries Shah
    “No effort makes a black crow into a white hawk.”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #3
    Idries Shah
    “Learning without action is like wax without honey.
    (Anwar-i-Suhaili)”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #4
    Idries Shah
    “Even if false gold makes a man happy:
    At the mint it will be identified.”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #5
    Idries Shah
    “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

  • #6
    Idries Shah
    “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

  • #7
    Idries Shah
    “No colour comes after black.”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #8
    Idries Shah
    “THE HEAVENS
    To the mallet of the Highest Mind
    The heavens are the smallest possible ball.
    (Akhlaq-i-Mohsini)”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #9
    Idries Shah
    “One lie will keep out forty truths.”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #10
    Idries Shah
    “Poor greedy one, wherever he runs
    He's after food, and death is after him.
    (Saadi)”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #11
    Idries Shah
    “Patience is bitter, but bears a sweet fruit.”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #12
    Idries Shah
    “Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #13
    Idries Shah
    “Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.”
    Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

  • #14
    Nelson Mandela
    “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

  • #15
    Richard P. Feynman
    “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.”
    Richard Feynmann

  • #16
    Slavoj Žižek
    “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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  • #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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #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

  • #23
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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

  • #24
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Lovers find secret places
    inside this violent world
    where they make transactions
    with beauty.”
    Rumi

  • #25
    Omar Khayyám
    “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

  • #26
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Woman is the light of God.”
    Rumi

  • #27
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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

  • #28
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “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

  • #29
    Omar Khayyám
    “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

  • #30
    Amir Khusrau
    “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



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