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It is necessary to note," says Rumi, "that opposite things work together, even though nominally opposed" (Fihi Ma Fihi).
Idries Shah
At His door, what is the difference between Moslem and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.
Idries Shah
Saying of the Prophet.Ink and Blood:The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.
Idries Shah
At His door, what is the difference between Muslim and Christian, virtuous and guilty? At his door all are seekers and He the sought.
Idries Shah
The pathways into Sufic thinking are, it is traditionally said, almost as varied as the number of Sufis in existence.
Idries Shah
The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.
Idries Shah
Practise your knowledge, for knowledge without practice is a body without life
Idries Shah
As with any other specialisation, teaching is a vocation, open only to those who are truly capable of discharging its functions.
Idries Shah
The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.
Idries Shah
When you get a principle on which everyone is agreed, you get the beginning of complacency and deterioration.
Idries Shah
When you feel least interested in following the Way which you have entered, this may be the time when it is most appropriate for you.
Idries Shah
The secret protects itself. It is found only in the spirit and practice of the Work.
Idries Shah
Unbelief and belief are both marching on His road, while both are saying, ‘He is one and He has no associates’.
Idries Shah
Understanding and knowledge are completely different sensations in the realm of Truth than they are in the realm of society.
Idries Shah
If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge.
Idries Shah
Do not dwell upon whether you will put yourself into the hands of a teacher. You are always in his hands.
Idries Shah
He who sleeps on the Road will lose either his hat or his head.
Idries Shah
Before the antidote arrives from Iraq The man with snake-bite will be dead.
Idries Shah
The bowl is warmer than the soup.
Idries Shah
When tomorrow comes, think tomorrow's thoughts.
Idries Shah
There are as many paths to Truth as there are souls of men.
Idries Shah
The Sufis say, "This is not a religion; it is religion
Idries Shah
Sufism is the essence of all religions.
Idries Shah
SOVEREIGNTYSovereignty is a wind of change. (Hariri)
Idries Shah
The hearts of the noble are the graves of confidences.
Idries Shah
He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam.
Idries Shah
Satisfaction is a treasure which does not decay.Proverb
Idries Shah
Nothing can defile the Sufi, and he in fact purifies everything.” Abu-Turab al-Nakhsabi.
Idries Shah
Rumi himself once said that counterfeit gold is only to be found because there is such a thing as real gold to be copied.
Idries Shah
Hariri says, in his Maqamat: ‘Safety is on the river’s BANK.
Idries Shah
The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King.
Idries Shah
The great poet Hafiz says that you should dye your prayer-carpet with wine if your teacher tells you to do so.
Idries Shah
Everything man needs is in the world.
Idries Shah
God provides the food, men provide the cooks.
Idries Shah
At the last parent visitation night I'd sorta accidentally watched a majorly nightmarish scene between Aphrodite and her parents. Her dad's the mayor of Tulsa. Her mom might be Satan.
P.C. Cast
There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.
Oswald Chambers
Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell.
Tom Spanbauer
We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff of life, and this is where we have to prove our mettle. A false Christianity takes us up on the mount and we want to stay there. But what about the devil-possessed world? Oh, let it go to hell! We are having a great time up here.
Oswald Chambers
Angels are the powers hidden in the faculties and organs of man
Idries Shah
At heart men are antagonistic to the lordship of Jesus Christ. It is not antagonism to creeds or points of view, but antagonism encountered for My sake. Many of us awaken antagonism by our way of stating things; we have to distinguish between being persecuted for some notion of our own and being persecuted “for My sake.
Oswald Chambers
StagesFirst I thought that a Teacher must be right in all things. Then I imagined that my teacher was wrong in many things. Then I realised what was right and what was wrong.What was wrong was to remain in either of the first two stages. What was right was to convey this to everyone.(Ardabili)
Idries Shah
When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
Idries Shah
Anyone can make a mistake.... It's how they learn from it and recover from it that shows their true worth.
John Flanagan
Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.
Clay Shirky
Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.Pastoral scene of the gallant south,The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is the fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,Here is a strange and bitter crop.
Abel Meeropol
Trust in families and in neighborhoods and individuals to make sense of the important question, 'What is education for?' If some of them answer differently from what you might prefer, that's really not your business, and it shouldn't be your problem. Our type of schooling has deliberately concealed the fact that such a question must be framed and not taken for granted if anything beyond a mockery of democracy is to be nurtured. It is illegitimate to have an expert answer that question for you.
John Taylor Gatto
He had entered the rough world of men, where a man's acts follow him wherever he goes in the form of story.
David Malouf
Life's a shit sandwich, my ass. Life's a polka and don't you forget it!
Wally Lamb
Truth in art is truth n circumstances.
Konstantin Stanislavsky
People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
Idries Shah
Sandals. The Sufi teacher Ghulam-Shah was asked what pattern he used in formulating his courses for disciples. He said: 'Barefoot until you can get sandals, sandals until you can manage boots.
Idries Shah
Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.
Idries Shah
Like the bat, the Sufi is asleep to 'things of the day' - the familiar struggle for existence which the ordinary man finds all-important - and vigilant while others are asleep. In other words, he keeps awake the spiritual attention dormant in others. That 'mankind sleeps in a nightmare of unfulfillment' is a commonplace of Sufi literature
Idries Shah
When I act tough they listen politely till the spasm passes. They know.
Frank McCourt
There's nothing sillier in the world than a teacher telling you don't do it after you already did it.
Frank McCourt
First day of your teaching you are to stand at your classroom door and let your students know how happy you are to see them. Stand, I say. Any playwright will tell you that when the actor sits down the play sits down. The best move of all is to establish yourself as a presence and to do it outside in the hallway. Outside, I say. That’s your territory and when you’re out there you’ll be seen as a strong teacher, fearless, ready to face the swarm. That’s what a class is, a swarm. And you’re a warrior teacher. It’s something people don’t think about. Your territory is like your aura, it goes with you everywhere, in the hallways, on the stairs and, assuredly, in the classroom.
Frank McCourt
They look back and relixe that they learned much about Christian behavior an churchy experiences, but whatever they learned about Jesus didn't really change them. They never saw him so strikingly that he became their one, overriding hope and their greatest love. They were never convinced that Jesus is better - a zillion times better - than anything and everything else. Our goal must be for kids to catch this rock-their-world vision of Jesus.
Jack Klumpenhower
To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
Frank McCourt
I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching.
Frank McCourt
You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
Frank McCourt
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