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"There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy."
Happiness
"As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?"
Death
"The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability."
Time
"He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy."
Family
"It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment's grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one's life."
Life
"A man is great by deeds, not by birth."
Deed
"As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family."
Family
"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest."
Work
"We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment."
Man
"If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?"
Virtue
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"Information about the activities of one body of Sufis may be harmful to the potential of another."
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Personal Development
"The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you."
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Personal Development
"Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release."
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Personal Development
"Secrets... Dexter a perfect example what... can happen with secrets."
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Personal Development
"Government is build on secrets."
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Personal Development
"The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it."
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Personal Development
"When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'"
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Personal Development
"The real secrets are not the ones I tell."
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Personal Development
"When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet."
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Personal Development
"Most of my life has been spent keeping information close, turning it over and over in my mind. The impulse to share anything is a new one, the impulse to hide as natural as breathing."
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Personal Development
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