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"Inheritance and culture obscure people's higher capacities."
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"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."
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"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."
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"A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well."
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"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."
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"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."
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"Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah..."
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"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."
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"I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'."
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"You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation's citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch."
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"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy."
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"The Sufi saying has it: "God, to the bee, is something which has TWO stings!"
Faith
"The Sufi teacher's mission is to be in the service of those who can learn."
Education
"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
"The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces."
Health
"Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way."
Knowledge
"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
"How many friends would you have if you went from one to another asking them to conceal a dead body?"
Trust
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