The Forty Rules Of Love Quotes
"How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves."
"The path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head."
"Knowing your ego will lead you to the knowledge of God."
"Meet, challenge, and ultimately prevail over your nafs with your heart."
"Every child takes after his father and mother. So have you."
"I am from a different egg than your other children."
"The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean."
"God has left this place! We don’t know when He will be back."
"When one speaks ill of God, he speaks ill of himself."
"God is not someplace far up in the sky. He is inside each and every one of us."
"God never abandons us. How can He abandon Himself?"
"No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete."
"It's like we have lost something and need to get it back."
"Just what that something is, most of us never find out."
"Choose Love, Love! Without the sweet life of Love, living is a burden."
"Stop looking for love! Stop running after impossible dreams!"
"I just wanted to make sure ... I’m so ... unhappy."
"Whether I like your novel or not, I have barely any influence on the final decision."
"Your personal blog seemed like it was written for my eyes only."
"It seems like you believe that love is the essence of life and that nothing else matters."
"Each time one says goodbye to a place they like, they feel like they are leaving a part of themselves behind."
"Life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die."
"For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away."
"East, west, south, or north makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within."
"The quest for Love changes us. There is no seeker among those who search for Love who has not matured on the way."
"Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair."
"Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process."
"A genuine spiritual master will not direct your attention to himself or herself and will not expect absolute obedience or utter admiration from you."
"The midwife knows that when there is no pain, the way for the baby cannot be opened and the mother cannot give birth."
"Loneliness and solitude are two different things."
"Most of the problems of the world stem from linguistic mistakes and simple misunderstandings."
"There are more fake gurus and false teachers in this world than the number of stars in the visible universe."
"Whatever fate awaited me in Konya, I welcomed it."
"Whatever is given by God more than one could ever have asked for."
"Why, then, do I feel this void inside me, growing deeper and wider with each passing day?"
"I felt a jolt run through my body, like a sudden intuition."
"I see what you are trying to say," I began, not wanting him to hear so much as a quaver in my voice.
"Love cannot be explained. It can only be experienced."
"Every time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven."
"Do no harm. Practice compassion. And do not gossip behind anyone’s back—not even a seemingly innocent remark!"
"The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time."
"One man’s pain will hurt us all. One man’s joy will make everyone smile."
"If we can embrace the universe as a whole, with all its differences and contradictions, everything will melt into One."
"The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories."
"The lovers of God can have critics and even rivals, but they cannot have enemies."
"This world is like a snowy mountain that echoes your voice. Whatever you speak, good or evil, will somehow come back to you."
"Instead for forty days and nights say and think nice things about that person. Everything will be different at the end of forty days, because you will be different inside."
"If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment."
"Destiny doesn’t mean that your life has been strictly predetermined."
"Your destiny is the level where you will play your tune. You might not change your instrument but how well to play is entirely in your hands."
"The true Sufi is such that even when he is unjustly accused, attacked, and condemned from all sides, he patiently endures, uttering not a single bad word about any of his critics."
"If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk."
"While everyone in this world strives to get somewhere and become someone, only to leave it all behind after death, you aim for the supreme stage of nothingness."
"Nothing should stand between yourself and God. Not imams, priests, rabbis, or any other custodians of moral or religious leadership."
"Believe in your values and your rules, but never lord them over others."
"If you keep breaking other people’s hearts, whatever religious duty you perform is no good."
"Everything in this universe moves with a rhythm—the pumping of the heart, the flaps of a bird’s wings, the wind on a stormy night."
"Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation."
"If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven’t loved enough."
"For the silk to prosper, the silkworm had to die."
"In this world, it is not similarities or regularities that take us a step forward, but blunt opposites."
"Submission does not mean being weak or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation."
"A man who has no time for stories is a man who has no time for God."
"The believer needs to meet the unbeliever residing within."
"In every wedding celebration, there is mourning for the virgin who was soon to become a wife and a mother."
"This world is erected upon the principle of reciprocity. Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated."
"Fear not the plots, deceptions, or tricks of other people. If somebody is setting a trap, remember, so is God."
"Nothing happens outside of God's will. It is one of the rules."
"It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to change the life I am living? Am I ready to change within?’"
"At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again."
"There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death."
"Words have dried up between you and me, son of mine. I have nothing to hear from you and nothing to tell you in return."
"God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time."
"Neither a minute late nor a minute early. And for everyone without exception, the clock works accurately."
"Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple."
"Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire!"
"The universe turns differently when fire loves water."
"Every winner is inclined to think he will be triumphant forever. Every loser tends to fear that he is going to be beaten forever. But both are wrong."