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Omar Khayyám
“To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much
Just remember two main rules for the beginning:
You better starve, than eat whatever
And better be alone, than with whoever.”
Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat

Idries Shah
“Three Things
Three things cannot be retrieved:
The arrow once sped from the bow
The word spoken in haste
The missed opportunity.

(Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet),”
Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

Omar Khayyám
“اي بس كه نباشيم و جهان خواهد بود
ني نام زما و ني نشان خواهد بود
زين پيش نبوديم و نبد هيچ خلل
زين پس چو نباشيم همان خواهد بود”
Omar Khayyam

Mikhail Naimy
“Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love
that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.You are
the tree of Life. Beware of fractionating yourselves. Set not a fruit against a fruit, a leaf against a leaf, a bough against a bough; nor
set the stem against the roots; nor set the tree against the mother-
soil. That is precisely what you do when you love one part more than
the rest, or to the exclusion of the rest. No love is possible except
by the love of self. No self is real save the All-embracing Self.
Therefore is God all Love, because he loves himself. So long as you
are pained by Love, you have not found your real self, nor have you
found the golden key of Love. Because you love an ephemeral self, your
love is ephemeral.”
Mikhail Naimy, The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark

Idries Shah
“Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.”
Idries Shah, Reflections

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