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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.

Shams Tabrizi

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
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
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
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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Expectation Respect Self Love Yourself
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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Beautiful Heart Need Right Soft Truth
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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Challenge God Guide Heart Knowledge Mindset Path True Work
When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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Deep Empty Philosophy Range Try
Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
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Beautiful Evil Kill Life Soul
The salat can be made up for, but there is no making up for false show or outward worship without presence.
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Make Up Presence Worship
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
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
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
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Born Love Necessary Need Pain Perfection Philosophy Strong
The real dirt is not outside, but inside, in our hearts. We can wash all stains with water. The only one we can’t remove is the grudge and the bad intentions sticking to our hearts.
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Heart Ourselves Reality
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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Gratitude Praise Prayer Thankful
The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of … But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.
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Compassionate Creation Fear God Kindness Love Ourselves Reflection Scare Shame Thinking Word
If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don’t say anything bad. Don’t be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
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Bad Choice Correct Oneself Right Shame Yourself

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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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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