{"quotes":[{"text":"Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["aware","awareness","awareness","be","become","beloved","conscious","consciousness","consciousness","dance","enjoy","feet","forget","hafez","hafiz","harmony","inspirational","kamand","kamand-kojouri","khayyam","kojouri","let-go","letting-go","life","live","living-in-the-now","love","lover","moment","music","present","rumi","saadi","sing","song","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","surrender","voice","yourself"],"id":35860,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do. Saadi teaches: ‘when the generous promise, they perform.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["generosity","promises","saadi","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":55844,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Q: How can I help myself?A: By remembering the proverb: ‘The Path is not to be found anywhere except in human service’, from Saadi.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["saadi","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":61107,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Fettered feet in the presence of friends is better than living in a garden with strangers.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["idries-shah","saadi","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":67988,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"You may be able to get the bone down your throat But if it reaches your stomach it will tear your navel.(Gulistan).","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["gulistan","saadi","sufis","sufism"],"id":82948,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Saadi: Be a true renouncer, (zahid) and [you can even] ware satin.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["psychology","saadi","sufis","sufism","wisdom"],"id":133367,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Almost every day I am reminded of Saadi's reflection that there is no senseless tyranny like that of subordinates.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["behaviour","psyhology","saadi","society","sufis","sufism"],"id":133481,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["friendship","knowledge","proverb","saadi","sufis","sufism"],"id":165838,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Poor greedy one, wherever he runs He's after food, and death is after him.(Saadi).","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["greed","psychology","saadi","sufis","sufism"],"id":233482,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Opportunity's precious, and time is a sword.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["evolution","learning","proverb","saadi","sufis","sufism","time","wisdom"],"id":303858,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}