We can only learn and advance with contradictions. The faithful inside should meet the doubtful. The doubtful should meet the faithful. Human slowly advances and becomes mature when he accepts his contradictions.
SHAMS TABRIZIYou have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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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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You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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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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You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
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You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
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Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.
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The whole universe is sum up in the Human Being. Devil is not a monster waiting to trap us, He is a voice inside. Look for Your Devil in Yourself, not in the Others. Don’t forget that the one who knows his Devil, knows his God.
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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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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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Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
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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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Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.
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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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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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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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