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“Experience has taught me the power of trophies. You may have every knick-knack and useless contraption ever devised, but while they weigh you down, a simple trophy can go a long, long way.”
“Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of w...”
“You say that this society will come to an end, because societies always have done so. I wonder whether they have ended because they were not really societies at all.”
“The sword of Zulfiqar is a perfect fusion of power and function”
“Has it not occurred to you that, conversely, other people do not have your difficulties because they do not react as you do to what happens?”
“Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained”
“Our heads are filled with knowledge, a knowledge that in some areas pre-empts our seeing anything at all.”
“Presence and AbsenceA 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.”
“People carry on whole conversations in proverbs. But they are not LIVING the proverbs.”
“Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt.”
“Proverbs and truisms are for this reason dangerous, because they produce blindness or non-thought.”
“The significance of the dwelling is in the dweller.”
“Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books.”
“Why do people always wonder whether books are any good, without wondering whether they are themselves in a state to profit from them?”
“Well-meant techniques such as arbitrary self-mortification, are useless.”
“People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.”
“The would-be Sufi needs guidance precisely because books, texts, while telling you what is needed, do not tell you when.”
“It is as true as anything else which can be spoken to say that all knowledge is really available everywhere.”
“Man (as he imagines himself to be), in general, is a possibility, not a fact.”
“I am an idol worshipper; for I understand what idol worship means, and the idolater does not.”
