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Prayer vs meditation

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

– Ambrose

One in knowledge

The knower and the known are one.
Simple people imagine that they should see God, as if He stood there and they here.
This is not so.
God and I, we are one in knowledge.

– Meister Eckhart

The empty heart

In the empty heart, void of self
can be heard the echoing cry,
“I am the Truth.”
Thus is man one with the eternal.
Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

– Mahmud Shabistari

Overcome any bitterness

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you.

Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self-pity.

– Pir Vilayat Khan

Enough to disarm all hostility

If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should see sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In God there is no duality

In God there is no duality. In that Presence “I” and “we” and “you” do not exist. “I” and “you” and “we” and “He” become one…. Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

– Mahmud Shabistari

Nature is but a name

Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.

– Cowper

Outrageously happy

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The master never seemed to have his fill of gazing at his firstborn child.

“What do you want him to be when he grows up?” someone asked.

“Outrageously happy,” said the master.

– Anthony de Mello

Like a clock during a thunderstorm

Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.

– Robert Louis Stevenson