Character: Shams Tabrizi

Reason and love are made of different materials. <...> Mind of men knits knots and risks nothing, but love everything unravels and all risks. The mind is always cautious and advises, "Beware of excessive enthusiasm." And love said, "Oh, it's all downhill! Indulge in all serious!" The mind is not easy to cheat, but love is easy to mix with the dirt. However, this dirt can be hidden treasure. A broken heart hides a treasure.

The mother knows that there is no birth without pain, without pain the mother cannot give life to his child. Similarly, the essential difficulties when it comes from another "I". The clay to harden, you have to pass through the fire. Love to become perfect, you need to go through the pain.

If you want to change the attitude of others to you, should be the first thing to change their attitude. Until you learn to truly love yourself, you, too, no one will love.

Faith without love is just a word; words are weak and lifeless, vague and empty, because they have no true feelings.

The man who thinks he has the answers to all the questions, the personification of ignorance.

Humility does not mean weakness or submissiveness. It does not lead to fatalism or submission. On the contrary. In humility laid a real force, which Matures within a person. The one who humbles himself before the sacred essence of nature, to live in unbroken peace and serenity, even if the whole world will plunge into chaos.

The real dirt is inside. Everything else is easily washed off. There is only one kind of mud cannot be washed with water, this stain of hatred and bigotry, corrodes the soul. You can cleanse the body by abstinence and fasting, but only love can make a clean your heart.

Hell is here and now. And Paradise too. Do not be afraid of hell and dream of Paradise, because Paradise and hell are constantly in the human soul. Every time we comes love, we find ourselves in Paradise. Every time we hate, envy or fight, we find ourselves in the fire of hell.

Purpose does not mean that your life is a foregone conclusion. So to give everything up to fate is a sign of ignorance. The music of the universe permeates everywhere, and its working on forty different levels. Your destiny is the level at which you play your own tune. You can never change the tool but how well you play, depends on you.

Whatever happens in your life, whatever terrible misfortune you had to face, do not despair. Even when all doors are closed, God opens the only for you new ways. Be thankful! Of course, it is easy to be grateful when all is well. But a Sufi is thankful to God not only for what he was given, but for what he refused.

It's always. It is necessary to tell the truth, and you begin to hate. The more they talk about love, the more hate you.