Mind Blowing Quotes

By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility. We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity, pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.

The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam

If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation

Islam has always been part of America

We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.

Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

Eat to live, not live to eat.

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have faith in it now.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

You are what you share.

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality.

If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!

We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe.

We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

There might be lots of boring thoughts coming from someone else, but the way they come across, they would be mind blowing because they would come in such a way so foreign to me. I think I would mostly be surprised, but alarmed also. There will be something within each of us, despite our differences, in thought processes to connect us.

Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos.

All I did from day-to-day is coach. That's what my job was, that's what my passion was, and the fact that now it's something I'm being considered for is just mind-blowing to me, that I would ever be in that kind of company.

Would a NASA reality show "Lunar Shore" be more popular than "Jersey Shore?" Civilization's future depends on that answer.

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities

I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing.

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace.

As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam.

Hot Fuzz in a strange way, for me, summons up the spirit of watching R-rated films that I was too young to watch. I was 14, 13 maybe, when Robocop came out. Seeing Robocop at my brother's friend's house, and not really supposed to be watching it, because it was [rated] 18 and I was 13. That mind-blowing experience, because not only is it a great film, but it feels illicit.

In five billion years, the sun will expand and engulf our orbit as the charred ember that was once Earth vaporizes. Have a nice day

Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around!

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education.