Bulleh Shah quotes
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“Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides.”
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“EDUCATION IS VITAL TO DISCERN BETWEEN KNOWLEDGE AND LEARNING”
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“Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.”
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“Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?”
-- Bulleh ShahSource : Bulleh Shah, “Repeating The Name Of The Beloved”
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“Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.”
-- Bulleh Shah
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“The safe place lies in obedience to God's Word, singleness of heart and holy vigilance.”
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“The sight or sound of perfect things causes a certain suffering.”
Source : Adrienne Monnier (1976). “The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier”
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Source : "Young Love, Complicated by Cancer" by A.O. Scott, www.nytimes.com. June 05, 2014.
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“Shame on those breasts of stone that cannot melt in soft adoption of another's sorrow.”
Source : Aaron Hill, Colley Cibber, John Vanbrugh, George Farquhar (1817). “Tragedy of Alzira with the Life of the Author and a Critique by Richard Cumberland”, p.14
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Source : Aaron Hill (1791). “Alzira: A Tragedy”, p.33
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“You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!”
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