I Was Learning Quotes
Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information.
I am the Real, for I have not ceased to be real – through the Real.
As Ibn Arabi says: ‘Absolute existence is the source of all existence’.
Abu-Yaqub al-Susi: the Sufi is 'One who does not care when something is taken from him, but who does not cease to seek for what he has not.
Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
A book, for the Sufis, is an instrument as much as it is something to give information....The key is the teacher.
To say "yes" to the Sufi way is to say "no" to imagined escapes.
Feeling important is a vice, not a virtue, however concealed as participation in something noble.
Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily.
Every species embodies a solution to some environmental challenge, and some of these solutions are breathtaking in their elegance.
Animals remind us that all beings who walk, stand, swim, crawl, or fly are radiant, mysterious, and unique expressions of the Source. Every species, every culture, has it’s own genius.
We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.
I take it hard when an animal in my care suffers or dies. I take it even harder when the animal's suffering is the result of human exploitation or carelessness.
It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.
I believe the happiness we feel in relation to animals is immensely significant. I believe it is absolutely central to our physical, psychological, and spiritual well-being.
I believe we have this idea that bad things ought to be prevented from happening.
You can teach a bubbly person to repair shoes, but you can't put the personality into a grumpy cobbler.John Timpson
Very early it was noticed that I had a good memory
When I think of how Jesus loved people, the word “cherish” comes to mind. When we cherish someone, we combine looking and compassion—we notice and care for that person. We don’t shut him or her out.
We begin to resemble what we focus on. If we devote our lives to our jobs, then we mentally take the office to our daughter’s lacrosse game.
Loving means losing control of our schedule, our money, and our time. When we love we cease to be the master and become a servant.
Empathy is a breaking down of the false constructs of division between the observer and the observed.
DEATH IS A PROFOUND LESSON IN TRUTH: We grow to understand more about it from childhood until the day we must cross the mystic chasm and abandon the land of the living.
...reflection can transform something familiar.
We are only different because there exists something to be different from, and it is this difference that bonds us.
Letting go isn’t about forgetting
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why is has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Good writing demands self-discipline and constant learning
Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.
An intelligent consistency is the foundation of genius.
Wisdom is the inner form of man, and rarely are adjusted out
Children learn from anything and everything they see. They learn wherever they are, not just in special learning places.
Send silent blessings to those that oppose you, so they may also find peace within themselves—and the strength and perseverance to embark on their life path.
Knowledge is what enables one to be wrong. (p. 11)
sometimes crying is needed to feel better. The pressure of life becomes so much at times that you need to relieve it.
A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.
Make yourself a slave to good habits
The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.
Borrow money only for an education that will yield enough of a return in the job market to allow you to pay your loans back.
At its best, leadership development is not an “event.” It’s a capacity-building endeavor. It’s a process of human growth and development.
But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
To accept one's past -- one's history -- is not the same thing as drowning in it
He exhaled in disgust. “High school is boredom punctuated by humiliation.
Our most valuable victories are those which go without praise.
Real change isn't achieved as the result of white knuckling and hoping for the best. It requires changing your heart.