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"I cannot create greatness as I can only create weak facsimiles. And in sorting through the innumerable facsimiles around me, I will only happen upon true greatness when I happen upon the true God."
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"God created us to be great in our calling."
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Personal Development
"You can become great through the power of time."
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"It's not what we can do that makes us great, but what we can do but don't which make us great."
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"To seek greatness is the only righteous vengeance."
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"Greatness demands great courage."
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"Greatness is the flower of great adversity."
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"Greatness is achieved through kindness, compassion, and love."
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"Great men are great until they know it. Saints are holy until they know it."
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"Our key to greatness lies not in our ability to project ourselves to others as if we are putting ourselves onto a projector and creating an image of ourselves on a projector screen. Rather, our key to greatness lies in who we are which we can give to other people in a way that when they walk away from us, they are able to say in their hearts that they have taken away something with them quite extraordinary."
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"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"
Faith
"The task is to learn to live in peace with one's own nature."
Peace
"Never follow any impulse to teach, however strong it might be. The command to teach is not felt as an impulsion."
Teaching
"One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets..."
Mortality
"However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet."
Self-Awareness
"You will never reach Mecca, I fear: for you are on the road to Turkestan."
Journey
"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."
Knowledge
"They asked Abboud of Omdurman: 'Which is better, to be young or to be old?' He said: 'To be old is to have less time before you and more mistakes behind. I leave you to decide whether this is better than the reverse."
Aging
"It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'."
Spiritual
"Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead."
Psychology
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