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It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.

Shams Tabrizi

Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
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Beautiful Evil Kill Life Soul
The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can’t neither guess the future, neither change the past.
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Change Deep Dream Future Mindset Past
You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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Happiness Hypocrisy Live People Stay Yourself
It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
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Destination Journey Leadership Path Thinking Try Way
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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Break Deep Difference Happiness Heart Philosophy Space Suffering Togetherness Unique Universe Weakness World Worth
If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.
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Act Creature Fall Forget Himself Human Proud Slave World
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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Beautiful Heart Need Right Soft Truth
Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
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Expectation Fight Future Hate Heaven Hell Love Philosophy Present Search
If the human being is a proud and honorable creature, he shouldn’t forget to act that way, even if he falls, even if the whole world is against him, even if he ends as a slave.
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Act Creature Fall Forget Himself Human Proud Slave World
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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Gratitude Praise Prayer Thankful
The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God.
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Challenge God Guide Heart Knowledge Mindset Path True Work
We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.
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Acceptance Doubt Faith Human Learning
When you oppose the shaykh, it’s like the slave who kills himself over a quarrel with his master. ‘Hey, why are you killing yourself over a quarrel?’ He says, ‘So my master will suffer loss.’
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Character Evil Kill Loss Slave Suffering Yourself
You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
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Learning Love Understand Yourself
There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.
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Beautiful Fake Guide Learning Oneself Reality See Stars Teaching World
If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.
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Change Day Death Different Goodness Man

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