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. Shams Tabrizi More Quotes by Shams Tabrizi More Quotes From Shams Tabrizi Most of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings. Don’t ever take words at face value. When you step into the zone of love, language as we know it becomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence. Shams Tabrizi silence simple mistake To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. Every human learns one day or another to become softer. Some accidentally, some because of disease, some suffer from human loss, some other from material loss ... We all face these situations, but we can either see the good in it and open our hearts, or unfortunately see an another occasion to lock it forever. Shams Tabrizi loss heart beautiful Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house. Shams Tabrizi wisdom spiritual doors When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance. Shams Tabrizi sincere earth heaven You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person. Shams Tabrizi good-person important persons 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 Tabrizi east journey thinking To get closer to Truth and Right, we need a beautiful and soft heart. Shams Tabrizi heart beautiful needs 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 Tabrizi shows giving firsts 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 Tabrizi surrender weakness water The path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. Make your heart your primary guide! Not your mind. Meet, challenge and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart. Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God. Shams Tabrizi ego knowing heart You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you. Shams Tabrizi stay-happy hypocrisy people 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 Tabrizi church dying forever The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way. The moment you start looking for Love, you start to change within and without. Shams Tabrizi quests looking-for-love love-you 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 Tabrizi emptiness awareness trying 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 Tabrizi wall powerful idols 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. Shams Tabrizi pain strong self 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 fog dream past A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults. Shams Tabrizi good-man doe men What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be short sighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full. Shams Tabrizi moon running mean 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 Tabrizi real heart water
