If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can’t expect from others what you don’t give to yourself.
SHAMS TABRIZIThe 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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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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Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
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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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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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Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
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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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Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.
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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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A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
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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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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
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Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.
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You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
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