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"Illiterate people should only be charged for the photographs, when buying a newspaper."
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Personal Development
"Ignorance is a knowledge illiteracy."
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Personal Development
"A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it-everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it."
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"Rumi speaks of people who rely upon the written word as sometimes being no more than donkeys laden with books."
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Personal Development
"Illiteracy is simply the inability to read and write."
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Personal Development
"Fight against illiteracy."
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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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