"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Brandi Snyder
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" That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet." - Emily Dickinson
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If we want things to change for the better, we have to be the miracle." - Unknown
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" I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful." - Bob Hope
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" We will not be remembered by our words, but by our kind deeds. Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath." - Unknown
Showing posts with label quotations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotations. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 21
Tuesday, September 16
Thursday, June 12
Sufi Quotes
HAKIM JAMI
Luxuriant Growth
Luxuriant Growth
If the scissors are not used daily on the beard, it will not be long before they begin pretending to be the head.
The One
Love reaches its omega when it transcends itself
Becoming one with the object itself
Producing the unity of being
Becoming one with the object itself
Producing the unity of being
The burden of the nose
I saw a man prostrating in his prayers and told him, ‘ You lay the burden of your nose to ground and think it is as excuse for your requirement of your prayers?’
Real Love
Ordinary human love is capable of raising man to the experience of real love.
The Beggar
A beggar went to someone’s door and begged for food.
‘There is no one here’, came the reply.
‘I don’t need anyone’, said the beggar. ‘I need the food!’.
‘There is no one here’, came the reply.
‘I don’t need anyone’, said the beggar. ‘I need the food!’.
The Dry Clouds
The dry clouds waterless have no rain giving quality.
Pride
Do not boast that you have no pride, as it is less visible an ant’s foot on a black stone on a moonless black night.
And do not think that it is easier to bring it out from within since it is easier to extract a mountain from the earth with a needle.
The greatest sorrow
Before Nushirvan (a famous Persian emperor) the Just, wise sages discussed the heaviest sorrow that prevails on humans.
One of them said it was illness and suffering.
Other said it was old age with poverty.
And last one said it was approaching death with lack of work.
At the end the last one was accepted.
Tuesday, June 10
Silence
Do not think that silence is silent!
For its speaks with the most eloquent words
Silence is NOT weakness
It is a strength
It is the weapon for the wise
and the downfall for all adversaries
Let silence be your preparation..
Let silence be your meditation..
Let silence be your realisation..
of this worlds temporary journey
and of our final destination....
So until that day....
when we will stand shoulder to shoulder on the battle fields..
Silence the heart
Silence the mind
and allow ALLAH's Glorious remembrance
leave all else behind.
"Silence is the veil of the ignorant and the adornment of the wise"
"Silence is the best reply to a fool"
"Water can be preserved in a water-skin only when its mouth is tied"
~ Sayyidina Ali (r.a)
For its speaks with the most eloquent words
Silence is NOT weakness
It is a strength
It is the weapon for the wise
and the downfall for all adversaries
Let silence be your preparation..
Let silence be your meditation..
Let silence be your realisation..
of this worlds temporary journey
and of our final destination....
So until that day....
when we will stand shoulder to shoulder on the battle fields..
Silence the heart
Silence the mind
and allow ALLAH's Glorious remembrance
leave all else behind.
"Silence is the veil of the ignorant and the adornment of the wise"
"Silence is the best reply to a fool"
"Water can be preserved in a water-skin only when its mouth is tied"
~ Sayyidina Ali (r.a)
Monday, May 5
Islamic Quotes
"When a noble man learns knowledge he becomes humble, when an ignoble person gains knowledge, he becomes conceited."
- Sayyidina Abu Bakr 'Abd Allah bin Abi Quhaafah as-Siddiq radiALLAHU'an -
"O God, whenever you want to punish me do it, but don't keep me away from Your Presence." - Khwaja 'Arif ar-Riwakri qaddasALLAHU sirrah -
"Become a better man day by day with better effort and praying is part of effort."
- Mas Yos Wiyoso Hadi rahimatuLLAH -
"O God, do not give me in excess lest I may be disobedient to You and do not give me less lest I may forget You."
- Sayyidina al-Faruq 'Umar bin al-Khattab radiALLAHU'an -
Wednesday, April 23
Longest Journey starts from within
“The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.”
Monday, April 14
Problems and Struggles in life are good for us
By: Salma Remani
Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy, and make us die as those who have surrendered themselves unto You.
~The Holy Quran (7:126)
A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to force its body through that little hole. Then it seemed to stop making any progress. It appeared as if it had gotten as far as it could, and it could go no further.
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Allah's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If Allah allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!
So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair of scissors and snipped off the remaining bit of the cocoon.
The butterfly then emerged easily. But it had a swollen body and small, shriveled wings.
The man continued to watch the butterfly because he expected that, at any moment, the wings would enlarge and expand to be able to support the body, which would contract in time.
Neither happened! In fact, the butterfly spent the rest of its life crawling around with a swollen body and shriveled wings. It never was able to fly.
What the man, in his kindness and haste, did not understand was that the restricting cocoon and the struggle required for the butterfly to get through the tiny opening were Allah's way of forcing fluid from the body of the butterfly into its wings so that it would be ready for flight once it achieved its freedom from the cocoon.
Sometimes struggles are exactly what we need in our lives. If Allah allowed us to go through our lives without any obstacles, it would cripple us.
We would not be as strong as what we could have been. We could never fly!
Our Lord! Pour out on us patience and constancy, and make us die as those who have surrendered themselves unto You.
~The Holy Quran (7:126)
Monday, March 31
Thursday, March 27
Rumi's Famous Spiritual Quotes
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Rumi Quotes
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged.
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts.
What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, "I'll do nothing until I can be sure". Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts.
What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.
Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.
Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.
If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.
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