Forms have changed through the centuries in obedience to the external world to which all forms belong.
– Idries Shah
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- Ego is the complete identification with form. Physical forms, thought forms, emotional forms. – Eckhart Tolle
- Your external world is a mirror of your internal world, and if you can discipline yourself to change your thoughts, your external world will change. – Mensah Oteh
- After I leave the earth my work is anyway going to belong to the world for centuries but till that time I want to work freely. – Amit Kalantri
- Try not to change the world. You will fail. Try to love the world. Lo, the world is changed. Changed forever. – Sri Chinmoy
- Forms are vehicles and instruments, and vehicles and instruments cannot be called good or bad without context. – Idries Shah
- Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence. – Idries Shah
- All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language. – Idries Shah
- There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience. – Anatole Broyard
- A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience. – Friedrich Nietzsche
- Don’t think of God in terms of forms, because forms are limited and God is unlimited. – CS Lewis
- Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life. – Billy Graham
- Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. – Nicholas Sparks
- He said that I have to remember that even though I’ve changed a lot in here, I’m going back to a world that hasn’t changed – Michael Thomas Ford
- One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies. – Shah Asad Rizvi
- It’s helpful to remember that God doesn’t belong to Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone. We belong to God, not the other way around. – Rev Kellen Roggenbuck
- You belong to all of us, and we belong to you. – Sarah J Maas
- Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria to grow the Naira to make it value. – Saminu Kanti
- Naira is our currency, belong to our country and belong to the people. Buy made in Nigeria let’s grow the Naira to make it value. – Saminu Kanti
- Things do not belong to us but we belong to things. – Debasish Mridha
- You know who you belong to, Jack?--œYeah.--œYourself.-He’s wrong, actually, I belong to Ma. – Emma Donoghue
- But the Sufis work IN the world, and therefore WITH ‘things of the world’. – Idries Shah
- All is changed, changed utterlyA terrible beauty is born – W B Yeats
- It’s not the surrounding that has changed, it’s us who changed. – Fatima Faisal
- I am an immortal Experiencer. Does that changed my life,no but it changed the way I Experience life. – Tarn dipp
- As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism. – Gloria Steinem
- A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar. – BR Ambedkar
- A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence. – Dejan Stojanovic
- The worst part of breakup is when you get out of a relationship and you don’t recognize yourself because it changed you.It changed something of you. – Redzel Romulo
- Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again. – Carew Papritz
- The best decisions are always made quickly and changed slowly, not made slowly and changed quickly. – John Patrick Hickey
- The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable; the candy bars have changed. And change has changed. – Ilse Aichinger
- I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested. – Jane Austen
- God has not changed. His laws have not changed. He is still a God of love and mercy But He is also a God of righteousness and judgment. – Billy Graham
- Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me. – Linda Bond
- Compensate the lack of love from the world with an abundance of self-love. Work on happiness inside. The external world will respond. – Ace Antonio Hall
- Saying of the ProphetDesireDesire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you. – Idries Shah
- Much religious teaching in the world is in reality a confused or deteriorated form, very different from its roots. – Idries Shah
- But the world itself, as well as special attitudes, properly understood, constitute the Sufi school. – Idries Shah
- Treat this world as I do, like a wayfarer; like a horseman who stops in the shade of a tree for a time, and then moves on. – Idries Shah
- Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries. – Billy Graham