{"quotes":[{"text":"Words have to die if humans are to live.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["evolution","learning","mindre","sufi","sufis","sufism"],"id":8271,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"Show a man too many camels' bones,or show them to him too often,and he will not be able to recognize a camel when he comes across a live one.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["mind","perception","proverb","psychology","sufi","sufis","sufism","truth"],"id":23314,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"He knows all my thoughts. He knows all I’ve ever done and He loves me all the same. What is our purpose, you ask. It is to love like God.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["actions","beloved","divine","divine-love","divinity","faith","god","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","love","love-poems","lover","purpose","religion","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufism","thoughts","unconditional"],"id":31048,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"You have no choice. You must leave your ego on the doorstep before you enter love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beloved","choice","couple","door","doorstep","ego","enter","give-in","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","leave","let-go","love","love","lover","relationship","relationship","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufism","surrender","transcend","transcendence"],"id":33305,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"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":"My life is on loan, like money borrowed from a bank. God is the lender, and He retains the right to call in the loan any time. Though I am responsible for taking care of it, I do not own this life; it is borrowed. Why should I fear its loss or the loss of anything else in this world when I must surrender it all anyway?","author":"James Dillehay","tags":["personal-growth","self-help-book","sufi","sufi-books","sufism"],"id":43718,"author_id":"James+Dillehay"},{"text":"The institution of teachership is there for this reason, that the learner must learn how to learn.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["learning","mind","psychology","sufi","sufi-way","sufism","teaching"],"id":46445,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"},{"text":"The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awareness","begets","beloved","bliss","consciousness","cup","cupbearer","drinking","drinks","drunk","drunken","drunkenness","ecstasy","enjoy","enjoyment","euphoria","faith","god","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live-in-the-moment","love","love-begets-love","love-is-love","love-poems","love","love-wins","lover","loving","merriment","one-love","oneness","pours","presence","present","religion","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufi-poems","sufi","sufism","tavern","togetherness","transcend","transcendence","union","unity","wine"],"id":46798,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"The lover drinksand the cup-bearer pours.The lover thinksbut the cup-bearer knows:love begets love.Since this wine is love,then this cup is love,then this tavern is love,then this life is love.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["awareness","begets","beloved","bliss","consciousness","cup","cupbearer","drinking","drinks","drunk","drunken","drunkenness","ecstasy","enjoy","enjoyment","euphoria","faith","god","kamand","kamand-kojouri","kojouri","life","live-in-the-moment","love","love-begets-love","love-is-love","love-poems","love","love-wins","lover","loving","merriment","one-love","oneness","pours","presence","present","religion","spiritual","spirituality","sufi","sufi-poems","sufi","sufism","tavern","togetherness","transcend","transcendence","union","unity","wine"],"id":46798,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"If you are 'humble', it may help you in ordinary life. If you are not, you will get nowhere in higher things.","author":"Idries Shah","tags":["evolution","humility","sufi","sufis","sufism"],"id":52343,"author_id":"Idries+Shah"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":129,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}