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.
SHAMS TABRIZILove 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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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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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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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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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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Whoever lives as he sees fit will not die as he sees fit.
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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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Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
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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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Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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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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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].
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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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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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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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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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