Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don’t pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love’s mute.
SHAMS TABRIZIIt is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
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Be sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
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The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of … But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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You can study God through everything and everyone in the universe, because God is not confined in a mosque, synagogue or church. But if you are still in need of knowing where exactly His abode is, there is only one place to look for Him: in the heart of a true lover.
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This world is like a mountain. Your echo depends on you. If you scream good things, the world will give it back. If you scream bad things, the world will give it back. Even if someone says badly about you, speak well about him. Change your heart to change the world.
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You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
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It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
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The universe is a complete unique entity. Everything and everyone is bound together with some invisible strings. Do not break anyone’s heart; do not look down on weaker than you. One’s sorrow at the other side of the world can make the entire world suffer; one’s happiness can make the entire world smile.
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There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
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It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.
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Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].
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If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can’t expect from others what you don’t give to yourself.
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The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.
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The life we live is just a colourful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.
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You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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