"The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk."

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Source : Idries Shah (1990). “Sufi Thought and Action”, p.4, Octagon Press Ltd

Idries Shah

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“But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue forever, and never have an end.”

Source : John Jewel (1848). “The Works of John Jewel, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury”, p.290
“That's something that is almost part of being human and I'm certain that will continue.”
“A successful career will no longer be about promotion. It will be about mastery.”
“Love is large; love defies limits. People talk about the sanctity of love -- love is by definition sacred. Not some love between some people, but all love between all people.”
“The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and selfish and unaccommodating and unresponsive it is, how dirty and noisy it is-and the next summer his neighbor goes to Paris.”
“Prayer is like money - it has no smell.”

Source : Simone Berteaut (1972). “Piaf: a biography”, HarperCollins Publishers
“Room 10 [a short film she codirected with Andrea Buchanan] nailed my personal theme: love and choosing to stay in the room when the going gets tough.”
“Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.”

Source : Yasmine Galenorn (2006). “Witchling: An Otherworld Novel”, p.274, Penguin

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