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 TabriziBeing the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].
Shams TabriziThe past is an interpretation. The future is on illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead, time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. Eternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.
Shams Tabrizi