Be sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
SHAMS TABRIZIThis 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.
More Shams Tabrizi Quotes
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A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
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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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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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Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.
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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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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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When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.
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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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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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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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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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The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.
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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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It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
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