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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

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?
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Change Deep Life Philosophy Resistance Surrender Worry
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
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
You learn by reading but understand by LOVE.
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Learning Love Understand Yourself
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
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
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.
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Deep Empty Philosophy Range Try
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
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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Character Evil Kill Loss Slave Suffering Yourself
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
You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.
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Happiness Hypocrisy Live People Stay Yourself
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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Easy God Goodness Love Perfection
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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Burn Company Fire Friendship World
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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Change Day Death Different Goodness Man
When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.
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Beginning Dance Nature Sincere Woman

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