Abdullah Ibrahim famous quotes

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim

#Self #Space #Understanding

People say that slaves were taken from Africa. This is not true: People were taken from Africa, among them healers and priests, and were made into slaves.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim

#Taken #People #Slave

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim

#People #Mind #Problem

I don't think of myself as a jazz musician but a medicine man.
-- Abdullah Ibrahim

#Men #Thinking #Medicine

Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man
-- Abdullah Ibrahim

#Mean #Men #Ends

We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.

Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.

I'm addicted to self-improvement. The thing is, there's so damn much about myself to improve.

I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.

When time and space and change converge, we find place. We arrive in Place when we resolve things. Place is peace of mind and understanding. Place is knowledge of self. Place is resolution.

The ultimate Consciousness is always present everywhere. It is beyond space and time, with not before or after. It is undeniable and obvious. So what can be said about it?

Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.

First of all, directing is an idea that you have of a total flow of images that are going on, which are incidentally actors, words, and objects in space. It's an idea you have of yourself, like the idea you have of your own personality which finds its best representation in the world in terms of specific flows of imaginary images. That's what directing is.