Quotes About Flexibility

To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn

Life: sometimes the man on the saddle, sometimes the saddle on the man.

A solved problem is as useful to a man's mind as a broken sword on a battlefield.

People change and needs change. So what was Sufism once is Sufism no more.

The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.

If you cannot sit on a throne like a king, seize, like a tent-pitcher, the rope of the Royal tent.

Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.

La gente cambia y las necesidades cambian. Por ende, aquello que alguna vez fue Sufismo, ya no lo es.

El Sufi es uno que obra como los demás, cuando es necesario. Es también uno que hace lo que los otros no pueden, cuando es lo indicado.

Those who say 'I am ready to learn', or 'I am not ready to learn' are as often mistaken as they are correct in their surmise.

Sufis can teach in any vehicle, whatever its name.

Ciertos niveles de comprensión humana no pueden ser logrados, se afirma, hasta que el cerebro pueda trabajar en más de una forma.

Los Sufis pueden enseñar por medio de cualquier vehículo, como quiera que se llame.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

You don't need to know everything that you want or need to do from the very beginning. Sometimes having a complete plan and trying to stick to it makes things more difficult. You just need to start, and then keep going.

Even when it encounters an obstacle, flowing water always goes on its intended way. If it meets a rock, even if it parts, it goes around and around again and keeps flowing. If there is no path, it makes one.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

when you're negotiating, you should always go for the thing you're least likely to get first. Then you can always back off to some of these other things if that doesn't work.

He'll always be living in a timeless warp, endlessly morphing into what anyone needs him to be.

To filter out those with greater wisdom, look for those whom do not adhere to just one idea.

If life gives you lemons, make some sort of fruity juice.

It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.