Pir Vilayat Khan Quotes

There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

Pir Vilayat Khan

• Soul
• Night
• Rebirth
• Annihilation

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
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• God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.

  

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• The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.

  

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• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

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• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.

  

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• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

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• I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • World
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• I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.

  

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• The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.

  

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• A mass of dust, world's momentary slave, Is man, in state of our old Adam made, Soon born to die, soon flourishing to fade.

  

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• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

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• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

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• Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive.

  

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  • Men
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• I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that.

  

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• Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

  

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• I love badminton. That's my sport!

  

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• I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.

  

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• Hey mama, don't you treat me wrong,Come and love your daddy all night long.All right now, hey hey, all right.See the girl with the diamond ring;She knows how to shake that thing.All right now now now, hey hey, hey hey.Tell your mama, tell your pa,I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas.Oh yes, ma'm, you don't do right, don't do right.

  

  Ray Charles
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• M*A*S*H offered real characters and everybody identified with them because they had such soul. The humor was intelligent and it always assumed that you had an intellect.

  

  Loretta Swit
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Intelligent

• Thou dirge Of the dying year, to which this closing night Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre, Vaulted with all thy congregated might.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Night
  • Dying

• ...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Alive
  • Monster
  • Abyss

• There can be no rebirth without a dark night of the soul, a total annihilation of all that you believed in and thought that you were.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Rebirth