40 Shams Tabrizi Quotes To Inspire You

Shams-i Tabrīzī or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian poet, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of Rumi. He is referenced with great reverence in Rumi’s poetic collection. Let’s read this inspiring collection of shams tabrizi quotes to understand life deeply.

The universe turns differently when fire loves water.

– Shams Tabrizi

Best Shams Tabrizi Quotes

1. “Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?” – Shams Tabrizi

2. “It is pointless trying to know where the way leads. Think only about your first step, the rest will come.” – Shams Tabrizi

3. “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

4. “Love is a travel. All travelers whether they want or not are changed. No one can travel into love and remain the same.” – Shams Tabrizi

5. “A good man complains of no one; he does not look to faults.” – Shams Tabrizi

6. “The summary of the advice of all prophets is this; Find yourself a mirror.” – Shams Tabrizi

7. “Every breath is a chance to reborn spiritually. But to be reborn into a new life, you have to die before dying.” – Shams Tabrizi

8. “You have to live with the people in hypocrisy for them to stay happy with you.” – Shams Tabrizi

9. “There are more fake guides, teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed.” – Shams Tabrizi

10. “You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.” – Shams Tabrizi

11. “Be sure that someday you’ll praise and thank God for your unanswered prayers that once you had wept for them.” – Shams Tabrizi

12. “Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want.” – Shams Tabrizi

13. “Surrendering is not a weakness. On the contrary, it is strength. The surrender stops living in boiling water and starts living in a secure place.” – Shams Tabrizi

14. “Most 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’s mute.” – Shams Tabrizi

15. “Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.” – Shams Tabrizi

16. “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?” – Shams Tabrizi

17. “To get closer to truth and right, we need a beautiful and soft heart.” – Shams Tabrizi

18. “When a sincere woman begins to dance, the seven heavens, the earth, and all creatures begin to dance.” – Shams Tabrizi

19. “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

20. “For your faith to be rock solid, your heart needs to be as soft as a feather.” – Shams Tabrizi

21. “Don’t search for heaven and hell in the future. Both are now present. Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven. Whenever we fight, hate, we are in hell.” – Shams Tabrizi

22. “The universe is one being. Everything and everyone is interconnected through an invisible web of stories. Whether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation.” – Shams Tabrizi

23. “It’s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. What is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects.” – Shams Tabrizi

24. “The Path to the Truth is a labor of the heart, not of the head.” – Shams Tabrizi

25. “How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves.” – Shams Tabrizi

26. “God is a meticulous clockmaker. So precise is His order that everything on earth happens in its own time.” – Shams Tabrizi

27. “This world is erected upon the principle of reciprocity. Neither a drop of kindness nor a speck of evil will remain unreciprocated.” – Shams Tabrizi

28. “If you want to strengthen your faith, you will need to soften inside.” – Shams Tabrizi

29. “The past is an interpretation. The future is an illusion. The world does not move through time as if it were a straight line, proceeding from the past to the future.” – Shams Tabrizi

30. “This world is like a snowy mountain that echoes your voice. Whatever you speak, good or evil, will somehow come back to you.” – Shams Tabrizi

31. “Hell is in the here and now. So is heaven.” – Shams Tabrizi

32. “The past is a fog on our minds. The future? A complete dream. We can’t neither guess the future, neither change the past.” – Shams Tabrizi

33. “East, west, south, or north makes little difference. No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey a journey within. If you travel within, you’ll travel the whole wide world and beyond.” – Shams Tabrizi

34. “Destiny doesn’t mean that your life has been strictly predetermined.” – Shams Tabrizi

35. “Nothing should stand between you and God. No imams, priests, rabbis or any other custodians of moral or religious leadership.” – Shams Tabrizi

36. “In this world, it is not similarities or regularities that take us a step forward, but blunt opposites.” – Shams Tabrizi

37. “Desires make slaves out of kings and patience make kings out of slaves.” – Shams Tabrizi

38. “Learn the Truth, my friend, but be careful not to make a fetish out of your truths.” – Shams Tabrizi

39. “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

40. “Lights are all friends of each other.” – Shams Tabrizi

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