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“Although hundreds of friends Have become my foes, The friendship of One Has given security to my soul. Rejecting many I have embraced the One-At last I am He and He is me.”
“I am the king of kingsO Sheikh! Not naked like you, I love madness, dynamism, but I am not distraughtAn infidel, an idolator, I am not one of the pious. I am going towards the mosqueBut I am not a ...”
“Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity”
“Instant Reading. A certain famous Fakir was claiming in the village that he could teach an illiterate person to read by a lightning technique. Nasrudin stepped out of the crowd: 'Very well, teach m...”
“The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.”
“But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.”
“If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.”
“The sun from far gives life. But get close to it and it burns anything down to ashes”
“The ego of a god, the wit of a goldfish.”
“The best way to lose a game is to assume that it is over, when it isn't, yet. The second best way is to assume that no fight is left within us, but to guarantee a loss is to mentally enter the game...”
“Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?”
“Those who dare to dive into the oceans, often finds treasures; no one ever heard.Take a leap of faith, every soul is having a treasure inside them, you just have to dive till the very end of their ...”
“Do I always have to be dependent on seeing a man with no feet . . . before I realize that I have feet?”
“People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.”
“Success is not a good teacher, failure makes you humble.”
“Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.”
“If you aren't learning, you are regressing, because more growth comes from failure than from success.”
“It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.”
“I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get g...”
“You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on m...”
