Omar Ghazali Grant

Retired project planner. Very amateur writer and painter. Interested in just about everything, expert in nothing.

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The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress. #psychology #sufism

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But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment. #sufism

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When the ignorant have become numerous or powerful enough, they have been referred to by a special name. This name is ‘the Wise’. #sufism

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So great- the conversation about #HumanGivens is expanding!! #Validation for Griffin & Terrell! Excellent! @humangivens @YorkHGTherapy https://t.co/ndxM6dcdNg

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Continuously, in commemoration of the Friend
We drank wine, even before the creation of the vine.

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‘The book of the Sufis is not the darkness of letters. It is the whiteness of a pure heart.’

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Do not regret the past and do not worry about the future.
Dhun-Nun

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The human mind is an organism in which what it absorbs will be to one man meat, another poison. #sufism

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Be in the world, but not of the world.

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From the beginning, from the age of Adam to the time of kingship: from the powerful, pardon: from the poor, sins.

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True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell. (Rabia el-Adawia) #sufism #rabia

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If you forsake a path, it is because you were hoping for conviction from it. You seek conviction, not self-knowledge. #sufism #bahaudin

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#Sufism has always existed.

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You must improve yourself on a higher level if you are to be able to help people, and not just weep over them. #sufism.

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The only acceptable alternative to completing an undertaking is to over-fulfil it.

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Being a Sufi is to put away what is in your head ̶ imagined truth, preconceptions, conditioning ̶ and to face what may happen to you.

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Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. #sufis

[Richard Wiseman @RichardWiseman]

I don't buy the 'post-truth' idea. Propaganda has been around forever but now it's easy to point out it's not true, which is a good thing.

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A MOTTO OF THE HUMAN RACE
Tell me what to do; but it must be what I want you to tell me.