Shams Tabrizi was born on 1185, Tabriz, Iran and passed away on 1248, Khoy, Iran. His full name is Shams al-Din Mohammad.
Some quotes by Shams Tabrizi are as follows:
“When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Desires make slaves out of kings and patience make kings out of slaves.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Learn the Truth, my friend, but be careful not to make a fetish out of your truths.” – Shams Tabrizi
“You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.”- Shams Tabrizi
“When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness. Human should be like a pot. As the pot is hold by its emptiness inside, human is hold by the awareness of his nothingness.” – Shams Tabrizi
“The summary of the advice of all prophets is this; Find yourself a mirror.” ― Shams Tabrizi
“The words we use for the Creator are a reflect of ourselves. If we think of God as fear and shame, we are scared and have something to be ashamed of…But if we see love, compassion and kindness, it is because we possess these qualities.” – Shams Tabrizi
“It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step. The rest will come…”- Shams Tabrizi
“Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you , Not against you.”- Shams Tabrizi”
“It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.” – Shams Tabrizi.
”A good man complains of no one, he does not look to faults.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.” – Shams Tabrizi.
“Great minds discuss ideas,average minds discuss events,small minds discuss people.” – Shams Tabrizi
“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.” – Shams Tabrizi
“We can’t find the Truth only listening to our own voice’s echo. We can find ourselves only in someone’s mirror.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Lights are all friends of each other.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Do not worry about tricks and cheat. If some people are trying to trap and hurt you, God is also trapping them. Hole diggers fell in their holes. No bad remains non punished, no good remains non awarded. Have faith in justice and let the rest be.” ~ Shams Tabrizi
“Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.” – Shams Tabrizi
“It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.” – Shams Tabrizi.
“If you expect respect from others, show it first to yourself. You can’t expect from others what you don’t give to yourself.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Most of conflicts and tensions are due to language. Don’t pay so much attention to the words. In love’s country, language doesn’t have its place. Love is mute.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Whatever happens to you, don’t fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.” – Shams Tabrizi.
“Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.” – Shams Tabrizi
“It is easy to love perfection. The difficulty consists in loving the human with his good and bad. We mostly know as much as we love. Only loving God but not its creatures, you can never really know, neither really love.” – Shams Tabrizi
“We all have different faces, characters and names. If God wanted us to be all same, He would have done it. Not to respect the differences, to accuse the others for our faults is not to respect God.” – Shams Tabrizi
“The sun will never be overshadowed by the one who denies to see it.And so is the Truth.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Surrendering is not a weakness. At the contrary it is strength.The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.” – Shams Tabrizi
“You will learn by reading But you will understand with love.” – Shams Tabrizi
“The universe turns differently when fire loves water.” – Shams Tabrizi
“It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.” – Shams Tabrizi
“Destiny doesn’t mean that our lives are already decided. It is a stupidity to accept everything and say ‘It is destiny’. Destiny doesn’t show the whole life, only the end of some roads. We are not completely masters but surely not victims.” – Shams Tabrizi
