Monday, May 18, 2009

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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man [human].
~Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz

6 comments:

  1. in Shams-ud-din Muhammed Hafiz ki boode? hamoon hafeze khodemoone? :-?

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  2. Always people who have thought differently of the majority changed the world and made it better not as the most common man.

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  3. Appearing, speaking, and acting as "the most common man" might give one publicity, but it sure dissolves her/him as we move forward in time.

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  4. bale, hamin hafez khodemoone :)

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  5. It would help if you could say what word in used in Farsi for "greatness"....I think this is a mystical (عرفانی) text and greatness in that context is different than what we think here...I think Kamangir and Rahgozar mean influential, impacting or something along this line...however in mysticism greatness is closer to humility and being down to earth or Dervish...

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