You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
SHAMS TABRIZIThe 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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When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.
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To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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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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Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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