Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.
"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
But that disaster taught me to understand the word of Allah: people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
Once again he was experiencing the language without words… the universal language.
"And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward. The rest is up to Allah, including the danger."
To die tomorrow was no worse than dying on any other day. Every day was there to be lived or to mark one's departure from this world. Everything depended on one word: "Maktub."
"You must understand that
love never keeps a man from pursuing his destiny. If he abandons that pursuit, it's because it wasn't true
love…"
No heart has ever suffered when it
goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with
eternity."
Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World
tests everything that was learned along the way. It does
this not because it is evil, but
so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lessons we've learned as
we've moved toward that dream. That's the point at which most people give up. It's the
point at which, as we say in the language of the desert, one 'dies of thirst just when the palm trees have
appeared on the horizon.'
The darkest hour of the night came just before the dawn.
"When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others
of them, seldom are you believed."
"And then there were the
others, who were interested only in gold. They never found the secret. They forgot that lead,
copper, and iron have their own destinies to fulfill. And anyone who interferes with the destiny of another
thing never will discover his own."
"When you are loved, you can
do anything in creation. When you are loved, there's no need at all to
understand what's happening, because everything happens within you, and even men can turn
themselves into the wind. As long as the wind helps, of course."
"Because it's not love to be
static like the desert, nor is it love to roam the world like the wind. And it's not love to see
everything from a distance, like you do. Love is the force that transforms and improves the
Soul of the World. When I first reached through to it, I thought the Soul of the World was
perfect. But later, I could see that it was like other aspects of creation, and had its
own passions and wars. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live
in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And
that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we
are."
Life really is generous to those who pursue their
destiny..
