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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.

Shams Tabrizi

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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Gratitude Praise Prayer Thankful
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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Empty Hold Human Philosophy Try
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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God Love Need Philosophy Place Religious Spiritual Study True
Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
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Destination Home Intellectual Intelligence Yourself
Nothing kills the soul that commands to evil (Nafs al Ammarra) like seeing the beauty of the heart.
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Beautiful Evil Kill Life Soul
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.
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Compassionate Creation Fear God Kindness Love Ourselves Reflection Scare Shame Thinking Word
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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Excellence Man Mistake Quality
For anew Self to be born, hardship is necessary. Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
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Born Love Necessary Need Pain Perfection Philosophy Strong
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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Make Up Presence Worship
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.
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Attention Country Language Mistake Mute Place Word
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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Discover Oneself Philosophy Thinking Travel World
Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
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Day Deep Future Love Moon Need Night Patience Philosophy Rose See Time Wait
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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Born Change Death Oneself Person Philosophy Theft World
To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.
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Beautiful Heart Need Right Soft Truth
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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Act Creature Fall Forget Himself Human Proud Slave World
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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Acceptance Doubt Faith Human Learning

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