Take a deep breath and exhale slowly.
Look around you. There's a sunrise, sunset, cloudy or clear blue sky.
Know that Nature is part of Creation.
Recognize and acknowledge the Divine around you.
Close your eyes.
Feel your spirit; let it soar.
Know that your spirit is part of Creation.
Recognize and acknowledge the Divine within you.
It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.
The life we live is just a colorful and deposit toy. Some of us take it so seriously and fight and cry for it. Some of us break and throw it. Either we give extreme importance, either not enough. Better to stay far from extremes.
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.
A life without love is a waste. “Should I look for spiritual love, or material, or physical love?”, don’t ask yourself this question. Discrimination leads to discrimination. Love does not need any name, category or definition. Love is a world itself. Either you are in, at the center…either you are out, yearning.
Shams Tabrizi
The chemistry of mind is different from the chemistry of love. The mind is careful, suspicious, he advances little by little. He advices “Be careful, protect yourself” Whereas love says “Let yourself, go!”
The mind is strong, never fells down, while love hurts itself, fells into ruins. But isn’t it in ruins that we mostly find the treasures? A broken heart hides so many treasures. You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.
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?
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.
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.
There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars.
The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty,
not the one who wants to be admired and followed.
We all have different faces, characters and names. If God wanted us to be all same, He would have done it. Not to respect the differences, to accuse the others for our faults is not to respect God.
Joy is like pure clear water; wherever it flows, wondrous blossoms grow...Sorrow is like a black flood; wherever it flows it wilts the blossoms. A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
A True Heart
Oh heart! Go and be one of those who contemplate the end!
In the universe of strangeness
Be one of those of certainty!
If you want to ride on the morning wind,
Be the dust stirred by the dervishes!
The Dance of the People of God
Within the Heart of My Faithful Servant
See everything within yourself: Moses, Jesus, Abraham, Noah, Adam, Eve, Asia (Pharaoh's wife), Elias, Pharaoh and Nimrod, are all within you.
You are an infinite universe; what are the earth and the skies in comparison? Didn't God say: "My heavens and my earth cannot contain Me, but I can be contained within the heart of a faithful servant of mine."? You will not find Me in the heavens; you will not find Me on the Throne!
Just as patience is needed for the crescent moon to become full, for the rain on the rocks to turn them to rubies, and for the drops that rain onto the sea to turn into pearls, they also would become expert tightrope walkers through patience and practice. With time, unripe grapes can become halva.
Oh, Beauty!
Your beauty is the grain
within the trap of troubles.
It is such a candle
That constantly it burns our moths.
Oh Darling! I love the chains of your hair,
Because they fit the feet of my crazy ruined heart.