God is silence
God is silence and is most easily reached in silence. – Baha’ ad-din Naqshband
God is silence and is most easily reached in silence. – Baha’ ad-din Naqshband
Search, no matter what situation you are in. O thirsty one, search for water constantly. Finally, the time will come when you will reach the spring. – Rumi
Dwell, O mind, within yourself; Enter no other’s home. If you but seek there, you will find All you are searching for. God, the true Philosopher’s Stone, Who answers every prayer, Lies hidden deep within your heart, The richest gem of all. How many pearls and precious stones Are scattered all about The outer court…
O Great Spirit, whose voice I hear in the winds and whose breath gives life to all the world, hear me. I am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom. Let me walk in beauty and let my eyes ever behold the red and purple sunset. Make my hands respect the things you…
If you want others to be happy, practise compassion. If you want to be happy, practise compassion. – The Dalai Lama
I would rather feel compassion than know the meaning of it. – St. Thomas Aquinas
The whole created universe is made of living energy that moves and oscillates and shines. This boundless store of restless cosmic energy has terrible destructive power. It’s like an upraised thunderbolt: to petty ego’s fragile life, identified with little body, sense and mind. But if, transcending petty ego, all the world is known as life – as only living energy – then how can…
A mind that has come to the stillness of wisdom shall know being, shall know what it is to love. Love is neither personal nor impersonal. Love is love, not to be defined or described by the mind as exclusive or inclusive. Love is its own eternity; it is the real, the supreme, the immeasurable. – Aldous Huxley
This morning, as I kindle the fire on my hearth, I pray that the flame of God’s love may burn in my heart and in the hearts of all I meet today. I pray that no envy or malice, no hatred or fear, may smother the flame. I pray that indifference and apathy, contempt and…