Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.
Shams TabriziFor 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 TabriziYou 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.
Shams TabriziBe sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
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