Omar Cherif > Quotes

“Wonders Does Psychology Reverse.”
― Omar Cherif

“Once you learn how to think for yourself and stop blaming anyone or anything for what happens in your life, you’ll be forever free.


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― Omar Cherif

“Like growth, change in general can be hard and painful. Though oftentimes it only looks as such on the surface. Being part of the unknown, people tend to be afraid of change. So they fight it, resist it, and try to control it. This resistance is what usually causes suffering; for it creates sorrow and disappointments. Change, however, only becomes hard and painful when resisted. To flow through life one must dive into it head first.”
― Omar Cherif

“Before knowing who you authentically are at the core you get to know who you aren’t.”
― Omar Cherif

“Confusing religion with spirituality is like confusing education with intelligence.”
― Omar Cherif

“Those who get married for the wrong reasons often get divorced for the right ones.”
― Omar Cherif

“Give yourself permission to walk away from those who belittle your ambitions and dreams, predict your doom, and constantly criticise you. Their projective reaction is nothing but a mere egoic reflection of their own emotions, perceptions, and experiences — which often occurs on the subconscious level, without them noticing. Reckon that it’s their story they are mirroring, not yours.”
― Omar Cherif

“The more we observe patterns, the more we connect the dots and make sense out of them, the more we learn.”
― Omar Cherif

“Once you start seeing through people’s bullshit, it’s almost impossible to pretend that you can’t see.”
― Omar Cherif

“Some people get bored; others get creative.”
― Omar Cherif

“A prime essence of the Human Condition lies in realising 
the significance of our insignificance. 
Being nothing and everything simultaneously 
then becomes the greatest poetry there is.”
― Omar Cherif

“Talk to your animals, they listen. And if you’re attentive and listen closely, they’ll talk right back.”
― Omar Cherif

“Dare to create your own rituals. Not for anyone else to follow, but for your own Zen well-being.”
― Omar Cherif

“Intelligence and the need to follow are inversely proportional; the more intelligence the less is the need.”
― Omar Cherif

“The problem with black-and-white thinking is that you never get to see the rainbow.”
― Omar Cherif

“When we are in-tune with our inner being and our intents match in accordance to the universe, we come to experience a mysterious kind of life force. A vital psycho-energetic fundamental substance, which constantly propels us forwards, and with such passion, too. It empowers us to impose our will and imprint our intent on the universe. This vibrational energy not only permeates us, but it also spreads throughout the entirety of existence — that which seems to be outside of us.

Such sobering realisation creeps up on you once you’ve been touched by the ‘otherness’. You instantly know that it’s not really about You. But rather, it’s about the ‘U’ in the ‘US’. Truly, no man is an island. This liberating moment leaves us with a transcendental sensation of belonging to the whole; of ‘mattering’ and of being able to co-create compassionate change in the world.

Allow this Prima Materia to flow through you unobstructed and you start living a magical existence through which synchronicity reaches notorious heights and nothing is impossible.”
― Omar Cherif

“You can measure the stupidity level of a certain population by how fast a rumour spreads through its people.”
― Omar Cherif

“All forms of bigotry stem from ignorance.”
― Omar Cherif

“Legal and illegal does not necessarily mean good and bad or right and wrong. It simply means that some men in power got together and decided that certain things are “right” while others are “wrong”. So it is largely a matter of perspective; and perspectives tend to change over time.

As such, there seem to be man-made laws from one side and — timeless, universal, almost unwritten — Spiritual laws from another. Assisted by our own logic, reason and morality, us cosmic, visiting travellers who are made of stardust and who happen to be citizens of the Earth for some decades can choose to be guided by the Spiritual laws.”
― Omar Cherif

“Those who have walked through the fire of their own hell and survived it tend to leave sparks of light wherever they go.


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― Omar Cherif

“Being a decent and sensitive human being who aspires to do the right things in life has nothing to do with nationality, ethnicity, religion, skin colour, or creed. It mainly depends on the level of empathy and compassion you possess; how you treat others, including old people, children, and animals, as well as the weak, the vulnerable, and the less fortunate. To be kind and gracious in one’s relations and interactions without expecting anything in return — be it a divine reward or otherwise — and without fearing retribution of any sort. For it’s not our beliefs that actually matter, it’s our behaviour. Love is all there is.”
― Omar Cherif

“In a world where speaking one’s mind is, by definition, unsettling, when I took art in general and writing in particular as vocations I promised myself that I would never betray my inner being or sell out. To be true, genuine, authentic, and real. To be someone I can love and understand. From repression to expression, this meant not to censor oneself when it comes to creativity. For one could gain the world but lose their soul. At some point along the way I came to accept that, having an unquenched appetite for the different and unordinary, my views will always seem to convey a distaste for conformity and the established norms of the day; that which is considered “popular” by the masses. As an outsider swimming upstream against the current, usually in solitude, who’s looking in at humanity — and through it — rather than looking out. As such, I shall carry on speaking my unfiltered, anti-conformist, anti-establishment mind till the day I die. The true artist who does not fit in often ends up standing out.”
― Omar Cherif

“Iran in the morning, then Iraq in the afternoon.”
— Persistently, Americans who don’t say (Eye-)taly.”
― Omar Cherif

“When we begin looking at angry people as children who cannot control their tempter, it becomes almost impossible to get back at them. Because this very awareness of their anger shields us from being dragged into their storm. Essentially, most are angry at themselves. Their fight is not really with others, but it’s within them. That’s all. If we are not able to respond with love, then assuming the observer position offers quite the amusing spectacles.”
― Omar Cherif

“Once you learn how to think for yourself and stop blaming anyone or anything for what happens in your life, you’ll be forever free.”
― Omar Cherif

“Do not work on keeping relationships in your life; work on keeping life in your relationships.”
― Omar Cherif

“The strongest souls are those who help others through their storms while they themselves are going through their own. The strongest also tend to be the gentlest.

Seemingly paradoxically, to be whole with a strong resilient character means to likewise be somewhat fluid, flexible, fragile — just like water. Rather than rigid and unyielding, being brave and tough includes being tender and sensitive… as well as a certain level of softness.

Those who are truly aware of their own strengths are comfortable in their own skin. For they have nothing to prove to themselves before the world, you see. That raw honesty, that courageous nakedness, also makes them vulnerable, which is not some kind of weakness as sometimes portrayed. Vulnerability here is actually a sign of strength and a highly attractive quality in humans. It makes them relatable, familiar, and accessible to their fellow Earthlings, allowing both sides to connect with each other on deeper, more authentic levels. This very transparency equally offers the opportunity to see a reflection of oneself or parts of oneself in others.

Vulnerability is powerful as it is sexy.”
― Omar Cherif

“Being alone tends to be feared by many. As it’s widely regarded as the worst and scariest thing that could happen to one’s life. But it isn’t so.

Lying to oneself is worse and scarier; because when done long enough people end up believing their own lies, failing to distinguish between the delusions and their actual inner truth. What follows, in the words of Fyodor Dostoevsky, is that “they lose respect for themselves and for others. And having no respect they cease to love”. A life without love means bitter, alienating loneliness — especially with one’s own company and hence also among others. Now that, my friends, is the real miserable tragedy.

On the other hand, those who have the capacity to value and cherish their solitude end up becoming a celestial force of nature.”
― Omar Cherif

“Being a decent and sensitive human being who aspires to do the right things in life has nothing to do with nationality, ethnicity, religion, skin colour, or creed. It mainly depends on the level of empathy and compassion you possess; how you treat others, including old people, children, and animals, also the weak, the vulnerable, and the less fortunate. To be kind and gracious in one’s interactions and relations without expecting anything in return — be it a divine reward or otherwise — and without fearing retribution of any sort. For it’s not our beliefs that actually matter, it’s our behaviour. Love is all there is.”
― Omar Cherif

“Fool me once, the man will eat for a day. Lead a horse to water, shame on him who drinks for a lifetime.”
― Omar Cherif