It is that power that is within you
It is that power that is within you, by means of which you move and attain liberation. It is the soul, but what is it when you have placed the soul underneath your arm?
Category Shams Tabrizi
Don’t be content
Blessing is excess, so to speak, an excess of everything. Don’t be content with being a faqih, say I want more – more than being a Sufi, more than being a mystic – more than each thing that comes before…
A good man complains of no one
A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.
God is greater
Allahu akbar (God is great[er]) means that God is greater than that which you have imagined. It means don’t stop there, come closer so that you see greatness. Seek so that you may find.
If a Person Claims That He Really Loves Someone
“If a person claims that he really loves someone, evidence is asked from him. And that evidence is the giving away of possessions, the granting of favors. Just as when Mevlana claimed that he loved me, when I came he…
Every Day is Different
“If parts are always changing, the whole remains the same. A dead good man is replaced by a good man, a dead bad man is replaced by a bad man. While the whole remains the same, every day is different.”
