If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can’t expect from others what you don’t give to yourself.
SHAMS TABRIZIMost of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don’t pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love’s mute.
More Shams Tabrizi Quotes
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You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
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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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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.
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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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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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Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
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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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When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.
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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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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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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
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If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.
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It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
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