Quotes About Influence

People used to play with toys. Now the toys play with them.

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.

EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men.

If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?

When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This names is 'the Wise'.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured'.

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed.

As swords were designed to kill They did well to make them tongue-shaped. (Anwar-i-Suhaili)

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.

The worst of sages is a visitor of princes; the best of princes is a visitor of sages.

Whoever has taught me one letter has made me his slave.

Whatever goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Dicho del Profeta Soy como un hombre que ha encendido una hoguera y todas las cosas vivientes han corrido a quemarse en ella.

The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured

Epitafio de Jalaludin Rumi Cuando estemos muertos, no busques nuestra tumba en la tierra, mas encuéntrala en el corazón de los hombres.

Ya que las espadas fueron diseñadas para matar, hicieron bien en hacerlas con forma de lengua.

Beggars and Workers IT IS RELATED of Ibn el-Arabi that people said to him: 'Your circle is composed mainly of beggars, husbandmen and artisans. Can you not find people of intellect who will follow you, so that perhaps more authoritative notice might be taken of your teachings?' He said: 'The Day of Calamity will be infinitely

Virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan esencialmente gracias a tu codicia.

Nothing is ever lost while even a single person remains to remind us of it.

The Sufi way of thinking is particularly appropriate in a world of mass communication, when every effort is directed towards making people believe that they want or need certain things; that they should believe certain things; that they should as a consequence do certain things that their manipulators want them to do.

Por cada Faraón hay un Moisés.

Han fijado nuestra nutrición y dispuesto la duración de nuestras vidas. Más que esto,y más allá de esto,los esfuerzos no serán productivos.

Recuerda que virtualmente todas las organizaciones que conoces funcionan gracias a tu codicia. Te atraen porque apelan a tu codicia.

La palabra "elección" es un fraude mientras la gente elija sólo lo que le han enseñado a elegir.