Bulleh Shah Quotes
Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
Quotes to Explore
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My very beloved and deceased third-grade teacher, Cliff Kehod, was the one that I really remember calling me Ike a lot. It just stuck. It is a dog's name, but I love dogs.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
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The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange.
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Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.
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Beloved," said the Glorious One, "unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek.
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As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.
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If ever thou shalt love, In the sweet pangs of it remember me; For such as I am all true lovers are, Unstaid and skittish in all motions else Save in the constant image of the creature That is beloved.
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I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.
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Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's.
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I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you.
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I don't want to be rich, I just want to be loved.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away.
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The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.
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Our beloved ones have not 'gone to a far country.' It is only the veil of sense that separates them from us, and even that veil grows thin when our thoughts reach out to them.
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My experience is that I find myself having to constantly define myself to others, day-in, day-out. The quote that's helped me the most through that is from Toni Morrison's "Beloved" where she says, "Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined" - so I find myself defining myself for other people lest I be defined by others and stuck into some box where I don't particularly belong.
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Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.
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I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.
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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
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Our street corners keep secrets, and our road signs only suggest, never deciding for us, never knowing if the destination to which they lead, is where we truely belong. Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will some day end, but that most of us just live to follow directions, and many times we end up totally lost.
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Repeating the name of the Beloved I have become the Beloved myself. Whom shall I call the Beloved now?
