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Every true love and friendship is a story of unexpected transformation. If we are the same person before and after we loved, that means we haven't loved enough.
~Elif Shafak (Forty Rules of Love)
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And the most godlike act a person could perform, forgiveness.
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Do you ever think of reevaluating your relationship with God?
Sufism says we're all Reflections of God. Unique but One. Do you think maybe God, if he exists to you, is imperfect in his own way?
I've often wondered why some people are luckier than the rest. Why God carries some people in his arms without dropping once, while others have to go through so much pain and hardship
I dont know if Christianity or Islam has the answers to it, but Hinduism and Buddhism believe in the concept of Karma. Karma literally translated to "action". So again, roots back to Hindu beliefs of judging people by their actions instead of who they are.
Everything you face in life is because of your karma. Whether thats karma from your previous birth or from this birth. And thats how you go through 7 such lives experiencing life in many ways. The questions that remain unanswered to me is why we were put on the earth in the first place? Why was the concept of Karma event introduced by Gods? If we die anyway, after which nothing would matter, why birth us?
But again. I like life. I like transient moments of calm. Of joy. Of getting to know people, concepts, places, things. I like having someone to rely on when things get tough to bear. Hoping he'll do something to ease the pain. And he always does. And i don't think its my brain manipulating me into believing so. I think God really exists. I think I'm holding his/her pinky finger as i pave my way forward. Its nice to believe that.
~Sxn (Excerpts from a book i'll never write)
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It's been a month since I finished reading the bastard of Istanbul, and istg, not a single night passes where I don't stare at the ceiling reminiscing about it.
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Theres something so warm and intimate about signing off emails and letters with 'Yours' as if there's a part of You and your consciousness that belongs only to this person you're sending the letter to. Whoever it may be.
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"A life without love is of no account. Don't ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western.......Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. "Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! "The universe turns differently when fire loves water."
~Rule number 40, from the book Forty Rules of love.
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In another section there were samples of the photos he had taken. Most were portraits of people of all colors and stripes. Despite their stark differences, they resembled one another in one curious respect: All the people in all the portraits had something visibly missing. For some the missing element was a simple thing, like an earring, a shoe, or a button, while for others it was much more substantial, like a tooth, a finger, or sometimes a leg. Underneath the photos it read:
No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It’s like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.
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But the old maxim still applies
Where there is love there is bound to be heartache.
~Elif Shafak,Forty rules of love
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Just as clay needs to go through intense heat to become strong, Love can only be perfected in pain.
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It’s easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. What is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings with all their imperfections and defects. Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love. Unless we learn to love God’s creation, we can neither truly love nor truly know God.
- Forty Rules of love
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“A life without love is of no account… Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire. The universe turns differently when fire loves water.”
The Forty Rules of Love, Elif Shafak
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A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western…Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire. The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
SHAMS OF TABRIZ
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No matter what your destination, just be sure to make every journey, a journey within. If you travel within, you'll travel the whole wide world and beyond." 🤍
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Character Review
from the novel The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
ELLA: The Other Side of the Coin
The kaleidoscope has started rolling and there we see Ella making her way to the kitchen. Before everyone wakes up she prepares a distinct dish for each. After breakfast, the sound of loneliness echoes exclusively for her to listen to the melody. Motherhood suppressed her qualifications, making her talent in literature a rusty sword.
Slowly and steadily her clock ticks, and with each tick emptiness grows more impatient, rebelling to break away from everything she has ever known. In the afternoon, she cooks again. At night the dining table represents a picture-perfect family. After dinner, Ella
makes her way to bed. Preparing herself for another upcoming monotonous day.
Exceeding beyond her limit Ella breaks free from her paramour. She no longer lives a transparent, monochrome life but rather a colorful one with intricate feelings. This might be stomach-churning to someone. However, in the end, love will always find you one way or
another. So, don't make love find its entrance the hard way because LOVE will always avenge its toil most inexplicably.
Rebirth featuring Desert Rose: THE HARLOT
A repertoire of excruciating experiences, she has seen misery beyond her years. It wasn't always like this - she wasn't always this sullied. She was part of a harmonic family, living her days in a humble abode. However, following one incident her life plunged into the unknown abyss of darkness unable to resist the course of ominous, overpowering pull; abandoning her youthful innocence. She was desired by men at night, yet rejected when dawn broke. As time passes her innocence becomes tainted correspondingly. Her belief in God and her religiosity were stupefied as to "what can be done". And then, comes a mysterious dervish whose powerful words struck Rose in such a way that she was conscious of the "self".
Ultimately, She was not in her primitive pristine stage but she was ready to change, courageous enough to make amends and embark on a journey to rediscover herself.
David: The Philanderer
David isn't your versatile go-getter rather he's the friendly next-door neighbor with a stable job, a beautiful house, and a picturesque family. When you have someone to shove your responsibilities to - your duties as a husband and as a father - focusing solely on earning money is very easy. Perhaps with this much free time to spare he ends up hopping from woman to woman. Being everywhere, he's
cautious enough leaving his heart nowhere. When his neglected wife finally finds the warmth of love, the idea of being loyal dawns upon him. It is true that he loves his wife like he loves the utility of his coffee mug. Pensive and distressed, he just can't afford to forsake this familiar life he's so used to. That's why he refuses the change in his wife and uses the children as leverage to tie her into a marriage that has met its end long ago. Now, all he can do is accept the course of fate.
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Forty Rules of Love: Book Review
If we are living a comfortable life, will we sacrifice that comfortable life just for love? Imagine we are having a perfect life, a perfect family, and everything that an ordinary man could desire. We got a good education, we are respected in our neighborhood. But there is still something inside you that is empty and that emptiness makes you feel like your life is incomplete. And then there comes one person in your life who makes your life complete. But you have to pay the price of everything you value in life from ego to your respect? Will you be ready to lose it all? Read this full review of the book Forty Rules of Love to know what choices the characters in the book made.
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