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When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.

Shams Tabrizi

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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Attention Country Language Mistake Mute Place Word
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
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Born Love Necessary Need Pain Perfection Philosophy Strong
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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Compassionate Creation Fear God Kindness Love Ourselves Reflection Scare Shame Thinking Word
Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
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Death Himself Live See
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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Change Love Travel
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 can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
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Goodness Important Life Person Yourself
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
When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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Deep Empty Philosophy Range Try
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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Destination Home Intellectual Intelligence Yourself
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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Make Up Presence Worship
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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God Love Need Philosophy Place Religious Spiritual Study True
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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Expectation Respect Self Love Yourself
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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Day Deep Future Love Moon Need Night Patience Philosophy Rose See Time Wait
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
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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Better Break Cry Fight Importance Life Live Serious Stay Toy

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