"He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah."

-- Idries Shah

#Love Is Quotes #Beloved Quotes #Sufi Quotes

“When we talk about self-confrontations, we are speaking about moral issues rather than social issues.”

Source : "A Separation's Asghar Farhadi: 'We need the audience to think" by Saeed Kamali Dehghan, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2011.
“With the kinds of progress we're seeing in Africa, we have people who have a very high expectation, and often people think that, you know, things would happen overnight. But I want people to understand that sometimes it even gets worse before it gets better.”
“Americans rouse - be unanimous, be virtuous, be firm, exert your courage, trust in Heaven, and nobly defy the enemies both of God and man!”
“God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.”
“Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.”

Source : Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.46, University of Texas Press
“When I was a TV director working on Judd Apatow's show Undeclared. I was surrounded by so many young people. People like Seth Rogen, who was 9 years old or something. It was just a ridiculous amount of talented young people. I started to think I'd like to see a young-love movie, but not one done in that glossy, Hollywood, high-concept manner we've become accustomed to. One that was, for lack of a better way of putting it, a little more ambiguous, '70s-style, where everyone was flawed, middle-class characters.”
“If your wife wants to learn to drive, don't stand in her way.”
“With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.”

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