To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
SHAMS TABRIZITo get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
SHAMS TABRIZIBe sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
SHAMS TABRIZIBe grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
SHAMS TABRIZIWhen a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.
SHAMS TABRIZIThe quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.
SHAMS TABRIZINothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
SHAMS TABRIZIIntellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
SHAMS TABRIZIPatience 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.
SHAMS TABRIZIWhoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
SHAMS TABRIZIWherever 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 TABRIZIThe 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.
SHAMS TABRIZIThere 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.
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.
SHAMS TABRIZIAlms in secret extinguish the wrath of the Lord’ means you are so immersed in sincerity and in preserving that sincerity that you have no pleasure in giving alms.
SHAMS TABRIZIIf you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can’t expect from others what you don’t give to yourself.
SHAMS TABRIZIIt is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.
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