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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

Shams Tabrizi

Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
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Easy Gratitude Thankful
Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.
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Expectation Fight Future Hate Heaven Hell Love Philosophy Present Search
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
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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Faith Judgement Love Play Powerful Principle Pure
This 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.
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Attraction Bad Change Goodness Heart Philosophy Spiritual World 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
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
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
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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Destination Home Intellectual Intelligence Yourself
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
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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Empty Hold Human Philosophy Try
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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Alms 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.
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Angry Generosity God Happiness Secret Sincere
Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.
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Discover Oneself Philosophy Thinking Travel World
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
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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Change Deep Dream Future Mindset Past

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.

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