Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
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The more honest and authentic we are, the more deeply we go into the mystery of our own being.
Interpretation
Embracing authenticity leads to a deeper understanding of oneself.
This quote emphasizes the importance of honesty and authenticity in our lives. By being true to ourselves and expressing our genuine thoughts and emotions, we can explore the complexities of our existence and delve into the profound aspects of our identity, thereby uncovering the mysteries that define who we are.
In practice
During a personal development workshop, this quote can inspire participants to embrace their true selves.
Embrace suffering, and you transform your relationship with what causes you to suffer, as well as your relationship with suffering itself.
If we do not live and manifest in our lives what we realize in our deepest moments of revelation, then we are living a split life.
Awareness isn’t something we own; awareness isn’t something we possess. Awareness is actually what we are.
The willingness to not bypass illusion is very important. We come to nirvana by way of samsara. We come to see the true nature of things by seeing through the illusory nature of things. We don't come to nirvana by avoiding samsara. We don't come to clarity by avoiding confusion.
Our illusions-the beliefs we hold on to-are the very doorways to our freedom. We simply have to enter through them without grasping or pushing away. We must not believe them, but we must not run away from them either. We need to see each moment of apparent bondage as an invitation to freedom. Then it becomes an act of love, an act of compassion, to stop running away.
Let go of all ideas and images in your mind, they come and go and aren’t even generated by you. So why pay so much attention to your imagination when reality is for the realizing right now?
The perfection of Tawheed is found when there remains nothing in the heart except Allaah
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.
What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.
The pavilion that seems to intercept divine aid does not cover God but occasionally covers us. God is never hidden, yet sometimes we are, covered by a pavilion of motivations that draw us away from God and make Him seem distant and inaccessible.
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