The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.
AL-GHAZALIIt is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.
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You possess only whatever will not be lost in a ship wreck.
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No one who possesses snow would find any hardship in exchanging it for jewels and pearls. This world is like snow exposed to sun, which continues to melt until it disappears altogether, while the next life is like a precious stone that never passes away.
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In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.
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Each of your breaths is a priceless jewel, since each of them is irreplaceable and once gone, can never be retrieved.
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Does money upset the hearts of learned men? He answered, “men whose hearts are changed by money are not learned.”
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Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.
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Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.
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The corruption of religions comes from turning them to mere words and appearances.
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People count with self-satisfaction the number of times they have recited the name of God on their prayer beads, but they keep no beads for reckoning the number of idle words they speak.
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The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
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This visible world is a trace of that invisible one and the former follows the latter like a shadow.
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Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.
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Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.
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He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.
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A man of bad character punishes his own soul.
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