Remove all the walls and curtains so you can get closer and purely love. Have principles but do not use them to exclude or to judge the others. Stay far from idols, specially from those you made from your own principles. Have a powerful faith, but do not play the powerful.
Interpretation
True love requires vulnerability and an open heart, without judgment or idolization.
This quote by Shams Tabrizi emphasizes the importance of removing barriers, both physical and emotional, to experience genuine love. It encourages individuals to approach love without preconceived judgments or the need to idolize personal principles, highlighting that true faith should not be about exerting power over others but about connecting authentically without exclusion.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding ceremony to emphasize the essence of love between the couple.
God is busy with the completion of your work, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. Every human being is a work in progress that is slowly but inexplicably moving toward perfection. We are each an unfinished work of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of skilled penmanship where every single dot is equally important for the entire picture.
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. Even when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful! It is easy to be thankful when all is well. A Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied.
If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
Be sure that someday you'll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.
You 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.
If you look around, you can find a face of God in each thing, because He is not hidden in a church, in a mosque, or a synagogue, but everywhere. As there is no one who lives after seeing him, there is also no one dying after seeing him. Who finds Him, stays forever with him.
When we come to the last moment of this lifetime and we look back across it, the only thing that's going to matter is 'What is the quality of our love?'
Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.
But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Or had she always loved him? It's likely. Restricted as she was from speaking, she wanted him to kiss her. She wanted him to drag her hand across and pull her over. It didn't matter where. Her mouth, her neck, her cheek. Her skin was empty for it, waiting.
God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses
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