The Value of Truth by Mullah Nasrudin

The Value Of Truth "If you want truth",  Nasrudin told a group of Seekers who had come to hear his teachings,  "you will have to pay for it." "But why should you have to pay for something like truth?" asked one of the company. "Have you noticed", said Nasrudin,  "that it is the scarcity of a thing which determines its value?" -Mullah Nasrudin Everything of value comes at a great price. All Awliya(saints) has given themselves and part of their lives to become a person of value. Greatness can't be achieve by sacrificing little. Become a person of value. ...

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Mir Baba Bulleh Shah Qadiri Shatari

Look into Yourself "Yes, yes, you have read thousands of booksbut you have never tried to read your own selfyou rush in, into your Mandirs, into your Mosquesbut you have never tried to enter your own heartfutile are all your battles with Satanfor you have never tried to fight your own desires." "I have got lost in the city of love, I am being cleansed, withdrawing myself from my head, hands and feet. I have got rid of my ego, and have attained my goal. Thus it has all ended well. O Bullah, the Lord pervades both the worlds; None now appears a stranger to me." "Neither Hindu nor Muslim,Sacrificing pride, let us sit together.Neither...

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Farid ud-Din Attar

In the Dead of night In the dead of night, a Sufi began to weep. He said, “This world is like a closed coffin, in which  We are shut and in which, through our ignorance, We spend our lives in folly and desolation. When Death comes to open the lid of the coffin, Each one who has wings will fly off to Eternity, But those without will remain locked in the coffin. So, my friends, before the lid of this coffin is taken off, Do all you can to become a bird of the Way to God; Do all you can to develop your wings and your feathers.” - Attar Translation by Andrew Harvey and Eryk Hanut From – ‘Perfume of the Desert’ Poem...

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