The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without.
SHAMS TABRIZIIntellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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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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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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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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You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
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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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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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Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
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There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
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You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.
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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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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 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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If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.
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