Quotes by Indian Authors - Page 74

Laziness - The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
Idries Shah
Only the search for truth is valid, the desire for wisdom the motive. The method is assimilation, not study.
Idries Shah
If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.
Idries Shah
The secret of Sufism is that it has no secret at all'.
Idries Shah
Sufis are not here to satisfy a demand. They exist to share what they have got. These two things are not always the same.
Idries Shah
You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.
Idries Shah
The automatism of man is overcome, in the words of Dhun'Nun, by aiming for 'being as you were, where you were, before you were'.
Idries Shah
If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth…
Idries Shah
The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service
Idries Shah
it was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'.
Idries Shah
But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH 'things of the world'.
Idries Shah
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
Eknath Easwaran
They have fixed our nutrition and arranged our life-span. More than this, and ahead of this, efforts will not be productive.
Idries Shah
But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school.
Idries Shah
Make mankind your dwelling place.
Idries Shah
What you have to learn is how to find the unworldly in everything.
Idries Shah
Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetStruggleThe holy warrior is he who struggles with himself.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetDeathDie before your death.
Idries Shah
You yourself are your own barrier – rise from within it.
Idries Shah
The donkey which brought you to this door must be dismissed if you want to get through it’.
Idries Shah
DeathIf he is a good man, death will be a release;If he is a bad one, it will release others from him.
Idries Shah
Saying of the ProphetSleepSleep is the brother of death.
Idries Shah
Sufi secrets are perceived, not understood by words.
Idries Shah
The Sufis have said: ‘The importance of something is in inverse proportion to its attractiveness.
Idries Shah
You may have forgotten the Way: But those who came beforeDid not forget you.Saying of Master Bahaudin Naqshband of Bokhara
Idries Shah
Definitions from Mulla Do-PiazaDrugs: Source of the mystical experience of the ignorant.
Idries Shah
...quantum problems unseat many classical ideas about matter, causality, and change that biologists use, and that disruption in turn entails radical revisions to the ideas about the mechanism in evolution, in ways we don't yet acknowledge.
Ashish Dalela
If you do not understand, you cannot love. You can only imagine that you love.
Idries Shah
People talk about ‘service, effort, love, knowledge’. But with knowledge you know what love is, and what it is not.
Idries Shah
A man is born to become God, and this is the principle. A rose flower is grown in a rose plant. In the same fashion whether a man knows or not, a perpetual action is running within him, how he will be transformed into God. This action is termed as perpetual change by the Buddhists. No! this is not the perpetual change, but should be termed as perpetual evolution.
Sri Jibankrishna or Diamond
Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality.
Idries Shah
ANDAKI:tEFFORT IS NOT EFFORT WITHOUT ZAMAN, MAKAN, IKHWAN (RIGHT TIME, RIGHT PLACE, RIGHT PEOPLE).
Idries Shah
An old fool is worse than a young one: For the young may always grow wise. (Zohair)
Idries Shah
As the neo-cortex of the brain keeps getting more complex through further evolution, eventually our far away progeny will born in a world where there will be no more religion to be endowed upon them.
Abhijit Naskar
it is high time we stop using the term “theory” while mentioning Evolution. The term “theory” somehow makes some people think of Evolution as an unproven “hypothesis”. Theory of Evolution is an incontrovertible fact of science. It is not a fictitious story like Creationism. It’s a hard reality. It is the bed-rock of Biology. Defying evolution means defying one’s own existence as a human being.
Abhijit Naskar
Sufism is the doing in this lifetime what any fool will be doing in then thousand years’ time.
Idries Shah
The practice of the Sufis is too sublime to have a formal beginning,
Idries Shah
The degree of necessity determines the development of organs in man… therefore increase your necessity.
Idries Shah
The problem with racial discrimination, though, is not the inference of a person's race from their genetic characteristics. It is quite the opposite: it is the inference of a person's characteristics from their race. The question is not, can you, given an individual's skin color, hair texture, or language, infer something about their ancestry or origin. That is a question of biological systematics -- of lineage, taxonomy, of racial geography, of biological discrimination. Of course you can -- and genomics as vastly refined that inference. You can scan any individual genome and infer rather deep insights about a person's ancestry, or place of origin. But the vastly more controversial question is the converse: Given a racial identity -- African or Asian, say -- can you infer anything about an individual's characteristics: not just skin or hair color, but more complex features, such as intelligence, habits, personality, and aptitude? /I/ Genes can certainly tell us about race, but can race tell us anything about genes? /i/To answer this question, we need to measure how genetic variation is distributed across various racial categories. Is there more diversity _within_ races or _between_ races? Does knowing that someone is of African versus European descent, say, allow us to refine our understanding of their genetic traits, or their personal, physical, or intellectual attributes in a meaningful manner? Or is there so much variation within Africans and Europeans that _intraracial_ diversity dominates the comparison, thereby making the category "African" or "European" moot?We now know precise and quantitative answers to these questions. A number of studies have tried to quantify the level of genetic diversity of the human genome. The most recent estimates suggest that the vast proportion of genetic diversity (85 to 90 percent) occurs _within_ so-called races (i.e., within Asians or Africans) and only a minor proportion (7 percent) within racial groups (the geneticist Richard Lewontin had estimated a similar distribution as early as 1972). Some genes certainly vary sharply between racial or ethnic groups -- sickle-cell anemia is an Afro-Caribbean and Indian disease, and Tay-Sachs disease has a much higher frequency in Ashkenazi Jews -- but for the most part, the genetic diversity within any racial group dominates the diversity between racial groups -- not marginally, but by an enormous amount. The degree of interracial variability makes "race" a poor surrogate for nearly any feature: in a genetic sense, an African man from Nigria is so "different" from another man from Namibia that it makes little sense to lump them into the same category.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
Sufis aim to refine human consciousness. This is Sufi mysticism: not mystification or magic, but a specific Path.
Idries Shah
Deteriorated science is a cult, so is imitative or deteriorated Sufism.
Idries Shah
Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots.
Idries Shah
We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory.
Idries Shah
Neither humans nor the Gods that they have created are superior to old Mother Nature.
Abhijit Naskar
Good and evil are both within us. And when our primitive ancestors humanized these natural qualities of the mind, they got two completely opposite supernatural characters. One was the merciful lord almighty and the other was the wicked devil.
Abhijit Naskar
We humans are the gods of this planet. And we also have created Superior Gods than us, to have a sense of security.
Abhijit Naskar
Lastly I’d say this – true religion, as a part of Neuroscience – a study of the mind – is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind has. In some form or other, it is an evolutionary necessity of the human mind, not a luxury.
Abhijit Naskar
Evolutionarily speaking, love is all about procreation.
Abhijit Naskar
You will always have doubts, but only discover them at a useful time for your weakness to point them out.
Idries Shah
If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.
Abhijit Naskar
Life is unlikely to end with humans, even if we burn in a nuclear holocaust. The relentless wheel of evolution will pick up from where we leave off and roll to it's predestined goal. If the human mind continues to evolve, enlarge, and expand, so that we are able to recognize our kinship with the creations around us, so that we are able to grasp our oneness with the cosmos, and so that we merge in yoga with the Divine, the long cosmic cycle will disclose its cryptic secret, and the long saga of billions of years of evolution will display its profound significance.
Roy J. Mathew
We evolve, that means our life’s purpose and perception changes from time to time because we are a part of an infinitely long chain of evolution which is doomed to death.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured.
Sri Aurobindo
Duty is sinless.
Amit Kalantri
My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for this earthly sin.
Amit Abraham
Satan’s inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.
Tomichan Matheikal
We all have to feed the greed of other people until we find people to feed our greed and life goes on.
Neymat Khan
To become free from sinful life, there is only simple method: if you surrender to Kṛṣṇa. That is the beginning of bhakti.
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda