Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.
SHAMS TABRIZIWhen 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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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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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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Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
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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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Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.
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A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
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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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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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