You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
SHAMS TABRIZILove 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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The 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.
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The 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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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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A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
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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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While the parts change, the whole always remains the same. For every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. And every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but also nothing ever really changes.
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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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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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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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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
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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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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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You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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