It Is A Way. Quotes
Authenticity is not a metaphysically distinctive way of being human
Mistakes can be fixed but if you do it more than once, it's no longer a mistake.
Some political leaders in the world make big mistakes but they never resign
From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.
Never wanted it to be an imposition, I am alone & will find my way alone.
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
Everything man needs is in the world.
God provides the food, men provide the cooks.
Your medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.
Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another.
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform
BARQI: AESTHETICS IS ONLY THE LOWEST FORM OF PERCEPTION OF THE REAL.
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.
I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.
As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’.
MAGHRIBI: Learning is in activity. Learning through words alone is minor activity.
SENTENCES OF THE KHAJAGANRUDBARI : Heart to heart is an essential means of passing on the secrets of the Path.
EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMIWhen we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.
Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.
ServiceI will not serve God like a labourer, in expectation of my wages.Rabia el-Adawia.
I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.
Love is often confused with attraction. Love is an action, it’s a choice. We can choose to love someone. Attraction, however, is a feeling, it’s an emotion, it’s temporary.
I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.
In the beginning, I only wanted to know, love, and serve God and understand the Bible. What harm could that possibly bring?
I’m tougher than you think. You just need to believe in me. You know, like a fairy.
Build a heterogeneous team to close three gaps in innovation management - idea gaps, collaboration gaps, and implementation gaps
Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.
Liberty depends on self-restraint. Freedom is freedom only when controlled and limited.
The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.
Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react strongly. Otherwise, they just take in the experience and move on to the next one.
We are to be generous not just in the results of our work, but also IN our work.
Tragedy cannot take place around a type. Suffering is the most individualizing thing on earth.
The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He must direct himself toward performance and contribution
If we are cut loose from the anchor of God's Word, we will not be free. We will be slaves of personal passions and popular trends.
Humans wasted so much time by being redundant.
... I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.
Sometimes when Anna is talking to Louise she sees words coming out of her mouth like fistfuls of stones. But she doesn't intend to spew stones
Two brothers. Two different worlds. Different mothers, of course. Did that explain it? Women usually explained everything.
