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…
The “I” in “I think” and “I do” is as real as the “it” in “it rains” and “it is cold.” – Leo Hartong
We are completely unaware of our true nature because we identify ourselves with our body, our emotions and our thoughts, thus losing sight of our unchanging centre, which is pure consciousness. When we return to our true nature, our thoughts and perceptions no longer appear as modifications of a single substance, they come into being…
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
Know that when you learn to lose yourself, you will reach the Beloved. There is no other secret to be learned, and more than that is not known to me. – Al-Ansari
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into two kinds of people and those who don’t. – Robert Benchley
What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
As long as I continue to take myself seriously, how can I consider myself a saint? How can I consider myself a contemplative? For the self I bother about does not really exist, never will, never did – except in my own imagination. – Thomas Merton
Kill me, O my trustworthy friends, for in my being killed is my life. Love is that you remain standing in front of your Beloved. When you are deprived of all your attributes, then His attributes become your qualities. Between me and You, there’s only me. Take away the me, so only You remain. I…