“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”
― The Way of the Sufi
― The Way of the Sufi
“The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.”
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
― The Caliph's House: A Year in Casablanca
“Right time, right place, right people equals success.
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Reflections
Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.”
― Reflections
“A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence; I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence.”
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“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”
― Reflections
― Reflections
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