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Shams Tabrizi49 quotes“Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.”
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Most 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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 TabriziShams Tabrizi 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 TabriziShams Tabrizi You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi 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.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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Love is mostly easy at night, it is morning you got to learn about.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh You can find beauty in the darkest of places. Be the light, my love. Bring smiles to their faces.
Aletheia LiolaAletheia Liola This fearless heart is trapped between these anxious walls of my worried mind.
CindyCindy Don’t push away your emotions too hard, remember they can push back if held for too long.
SargamSargam To choose a plain life, I choose neither to lose and nor do I gain, If happiness is not in my destiny, I refuse to accept pain.
Astha SrivastavaAstha Srivastava Steal back your heart – self-love.
Mona-LiseMona-Lise Hope is the only thing that keeps us alive. Without hope there can be no you or I.
BelaBela An open mind opens our hearts to have compassion for others.
Elaine HaysElaine Hays
More on destination
Excitement always leads to tears.
Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
Khaled HosseiniKhaled Hosseini I always liked those moments of epiphany, when you have the next destination.
Brad PittBrad Pitt Think, in this batter’d Caravanserai Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his destin’d Hour and went his way.
Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur AsheArthur Ashe It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
Shams TabriziShams Tabrizi There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.
Ray BradburyRay Bradbury We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.
Martin LutherMartin Luther
