1. How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves.

If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we. 2. The Path to the Truth is a labour of the heart, not of the head. a!e your heart your primary guide" #ot your mind. eet, challange, and ultimately prevail over your nafs $false ego% with your heart. &nowing your ego will lead you to the !nowledge of God. '.(ou can study God through everything and evryone in the )niverse, because God is not confined in a mos*ue, synagogue, or church. +ut if you still in need of !nowing where e,actly His abode is, there is only one place to loo! for Him- in the heart of a true lover. .. /ach and every reader comprehends the Holy 0ur1an on a different level of tandem with the depth of his understanding. There are four levels of insight. The first level is outermeaning and it is one that the ma2ority of the people are content with. #e,t is the inner level. Third is the inner of the ineer. 3nd the forth is so deep it cannot be put into words and is therefore bound to remain indescribable. 4. Intellect and love are made of different materials. Intellect ties people in !nots and ris!s nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and ris!s everything. Intellect is always cautious and advises, 5+eware too much ecstasy,1 whereas love says, 56h ta!e the plunge"1 Intellect does not easily brea! down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. +ut treasures are hidden among ruins. 3 bro!en heart hides treasures. 7. ost of the problems of the world stems from linguistic mista!es and simple misunderstandings. 8on1t ever ta!e words at face value. 9hen you step into the aone of love, language as we !now it becaomes obsolete. That which cannot be put into words can only be grasped through silence.

:. ;oneliness and solitude are two different things. 9hen you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. <olitude is better for us, for it means being alone without feeling lonely. +ut eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. =emember, only in another person1s heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you. >. 9hatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair. /ven when all doors remained closed, God will open up a new path only for you. +e than!ful" It is easy to be than!ful when all is well. 3 <ufi is than!ful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied. ?.Patience does notmean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. 9hat does patience mean@ It means to loo! at the thorn and see the rose, to loo! at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be shortsighted as to not able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never runs out of patience, for they !now that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full. 1A. /ast, west, south, or north ma!es little difference. #o matter what your destination, 2ust be sure to ma!e every 2ourney a 2ourney within. If you travel within, you1ll travel the whole world and beyond. 11. The midwife !nows that when there is no pain, the way for the baby canot be opened and the mother cannot give birth. ;i!ewise, for a new <elf to be born, hardship is necessary. Bust as clay needs to go through intense heat to be strong, ;ove can only be perfected in pain. 12. The *uest of ;ove changes us. There is no see!er among those who search for ;ove who has not matured on the way. The moment you start loo!ing for ;ove, you start to change within and without.

1'. There are more fa!e gurus and false teachers in this world than the number of stars in the visible universe. 8on1t confuse power driven, self centred people with true mentors. 3 genuine spiritual master will not divert you attention to himself or herself and will not e,pect absolute obedience or utter admiration from you, but instead will help you to appreciate and admire your inner self. True mentors are as transparent as glass. They let the ;ight of God pass through them. 1.. Try not to resist the changes that comes your way. Instead let life live through you. 3nd do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do yo !now that the side you are used to is better than the one to come@ 14. God is busy with the completion of your wor!, both outwardly and inwardly. He is fully occupied with you. /very human being is a wor! in progress that is slowly but ine,orably moving toward perfection. 9e are each an unfinished wor! of art both waiting and striving to be completed. God deals with each of us separately because humanity is a fine art of s!illed penmanship where every single dot is e*ually important for the entire picture. 17. It1s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. 9hat is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfactions and defects. =emember, one can only !now what one is capable is of loving. There is no wisdom without love. )nless we learn to love God1s creation, we can neither truly love nor truly !now God. 1:. =eal filth is the one inside. The rest simply washes off. There is only one type of dirt that cannot be cleansed with pure waters, and that is the stain of hatred and bigotry contaminating the soul. (ou can purify your body through abstinence and fasting, but only love will purify our heart. 1>.The whole universe is contained within a single human being C you. everything that you see around, including the things you might not be fond of and even the people you despise or abhor,

is present within you in varying degrees. Therefore, do not loo! for <heitan outside yourself either. The devil is not an e,traordinary force that attac!s from without. It is an ordinary voice within. If you get to !now yourself fully, facing with honesty and hardness both your dar! and bright sides, you will arrive as a supreme form of consciousness. 9hen a person !nows himself or herself, he or she !nows God. 1?. If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself. )nless you learn to love yourself, fully and sincerely, there is no way you can be loved. 6nce you acheive that stage, however, be than!ful for every thorn that others might throw at you. It1s a sign that you will soon be showered in roses. 2A. Dret not where the road will ta!e you. Instead concentrate on the first step. That1s the hardest part and that1s what you are responsible for. 6nce you ta!e that step let everything do what it naturally does and the rest will follow. 8o not go with the flow. +e the flow. 21. 9e were all created in His image, and yet we were each created different and uni*ue. #o two people are ali!e. #o two hearts beat to the same rhythm. If God had wanted everyone to be the same, He would have made it so. Therefore, disrespecting differences and imposing your thoughts on others is tantamount to disrespecting God1s holy scheme. 22. 9hen a true lover of God goes into a tavern, the tavern becomes his chamber of prayer, but when a wine bibber goes into the same chamber, it becomes his tavern. In everything we do, it is our hearts that ma!es the difference, not our outer appearences. <ufis do not 2udge other people on how they loo! or who they are. 9hen a <ufi stares at someone, he !eeps both eyes closed and instead opens a third eye C the eye that sees inner realm. 2'. ;ife is a temporary loan, and this world is nothing but a s!etchy imitation of =eality. 6nly children would mista!e a toy

for the real thing. 3nd yet human beings either become infatuated with the toy or disrespectfully brea! it and throw it aside. In this life stay away from all !inds of e,tremities, for they will destroy balance. 2.. The human being has a uni*ue place among God1s creation. EI breathed into him of y <pirit,E God says. /ach and every one of us without e,ception is designed to be God1s delegate on earth. 3s! yourself, 2ust how often do you behave li!e a delegate, if you ever do so@ =emember, it falls upon each of us to discover the divine spirit inside and live by it. 24. Hell is here and now. <o is heaven. *uit worrying about hell or dreaming about heaven, as they are both present inside this very moment. /very time we fall in love, we ascend to heaven. every time we hate, or fight someone, we tumble straight into the fires of hell. 27.The universe is one being. /verything and everyone is interconnected through invisible web of stories. 9hether we are aware of it or not, we are all in a silent conversation. 8o no harm. Practice compassion. 3nd do not gossip behind anyone1s bac! C not even a seemingly innocent remar!" The words that come out of our mouth do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come bac! to us in due time. 6ne man1s pain will hurt us all. 6ne man1s 2oy will ma!e everyone happy. 2:. The world is li!e a snowy mountain that echoes your voice. 9hatever you spea!, good or evil, will somehow come bac! to you. Therefore, if there is someone who harbours ill thoughts about you, saying similarly bad things about him will only ma!e matters worse. (ou will be loc!ed in a vicious circle of malevolent energy. Instead for forty days and nights say and thin! nice thing about that person. /verything will be different at the end of forty days, because you will be different inside. 2>. The past in an interpretation. The future is an illusion. The

world does not move through time as if it were a single line, proceeding from the past to the future. Instead time moves through and within us, in endless spirals. /ternity does not mean infinite time, but simply timelessness. If you want to e,perience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment. 2?. 8estiny doesn1t mean that your life has been predetermined. Therefore, to leave everything to fate and to not actively contribute to the music of the universe is a sign of sheer ignorance. The music of the universe is allFpervading and it is composed on forty different levels. (our destiny is the level where you will play your tune. (ou might not change your instrument but how well to play is entirely in your hands. 'A. The true <ufi is such that even when he is un2ustly accused, attac!ed, and condemned from all sides, he patiently endures, utteringnot a single bad word about any of his critics. 3 <ufi never apportions blame. How can there be opponents or rivals or even EothersE when there is no EselfE in the first place@ How can there be anyone to blame when there is only 6ne@ '1. If you want to strengthen your faith, you will need to soften inside. Dor your faith to be roc! solid, your heart needs to be as soft as feather. Through an illness, accident, loss, or fright, one way or another, we are all forced with incidents that teach us how to become less selfish and 2udgmental, and more compassionate and generous. (et some of us learn the lesson and manage to become milder, while others end up becoming even harsher than before. The only way to get closer to the Trhth is to e,pand your heart so that it will encompass all humanity and still have room for more ;ove. '2. #othing should stand between yourself and God. #ot imans, priests, rabbis, or any other custodians of moral or religious leadership. #ot spiritual masters, not even your faith. +elieve in your values and your rules, but never lord them over others. If you !eep brea!ing other people1s hearts, whatever

religious duty you perform is no good. <tay away from all sorts of idolatry, for they will blur your vision. ;et God and only God be your guide. ;earn the Truth, my friend, but be careful not to ma!e a fetish out of your truths. ''. 9hile everyone im this world strives to get somewhere and becomes someone, only to leave all behind after death, you aim for the supreme stage of nothingness. ;ive this life as light and empty as the number Gero. 9e are no different from a pot. It is not the decorations outside but the emptiness inside that holds us straight. Bust li!e that, it is not what we aspire to acheive but the consciousness oif nothingness taht !eeps us going. '.. <ubmission does not mean being wea! or passive. It leads to neither fatalism nor capitulation. Bust the opposite. True power resides in submission C a power that comes from within. Those who submit to the divine essence of life will live in unperturbed tran*uility ad peace even when the whole wide world goes through turbulence after turbulence. '4. In this world, it is not similarities or regularities that ta!e us a step forward, but blunt opposites. 3nd all the opposites in the universe are present within each and everyone if us. Therefore the believer needs to meet the unbeliever residing within. 3nd the nonbeliever shoud get to !now the silent faithful in him. )ntil the day one reaches the stage of the perfect human being, faith is a gradual process and one that necessitates its seeming opposite- disbelief. '7.This world is erected upon the principle of reciprocity. #either a drop of !indness nor a spec! of evil will remain unreciprocated. Dear not the plots, deceptions, or tric!s of other people. If somebody is setting a trap, remember, so is God. He is the biggest plotter. #ot even a leaf stirs outside God1s !nowledge. <imply and fully believe in that. whatever God does, he does beautifully. ':. God is a meticulous cloc!ma!er. <o precise is His order that

everything on earth happens in its own time. #either a minute late nor a minute early. 3nd for everyone without e,ception, the cloc! wor!s accurately. Dor each there is a time to love and a time to die. '>. It is never too late to as! yourself, E3m I ready to change the life I am living@ 3m I ready to change within@E /ven if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. 3t 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. '?. 9hile the parts change, the whole always remains the same. Dor every thief who departs this world, a new one is born. 3nd every decent person who passes away is replaced by a new one. In this way not only does nothing remain the same but nothing ever really changes. .A. 3 life without love is of no account. 8on1t as! yourself what !ind of love you should see!, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, /astern or 9esternH8ivisions only lead to more divisions. ;ove has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. ;ove is the water of life. 3nd a lover is a soul of fire. The universe turns differently when fire loves water