Faith & Spirituality Sayings

What Do sad people have in Common? It seems They have all built a shrine To the past And often go there And do a strange wail and Worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being So religious Like That.

I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew. The Truth has shared so much of Itself with me that I can no longer call myself a man, a woman, an angel, or even a pure Soul.

Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does anything weird, But the God who knows only four words. And keeps repeating them, saying: 'Come dance with me, come dance.'

The inhabitants of this country are all polytheists, and they worship idols. They have a temple where they perform their rites.

In Constantinople, I saw a church so large it could hold ten thousand people. The Christians there worship idols, but their buildings are magnificent.

I have indeed - praise be to God - attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and I have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

Their women are of surpassing beauty, and are shown more respect than the men. These people are Muslims, punctilious in observing the hours of prayer, studying the books of law, and memorizing the Koran. Yet their women show no bashfulness before men…

I was much astonished at this: but, seeing the sailors in the utmost perturbation, and bidding farewell to one another, I said, Pray what is the matter? They said, What we supposed to be a mountain, is really a Rokh, and if he sees us, we shall assur…

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

Grief is the ink with which joy rewrites the soul's story.

If you seek the divine, notice the light in ordinary moments.

When 'I' was, God was not; when God is, 'I' am not. All darkness vanished when the lamp of truth lit within.

God dwells in you like the pupil in the eye. Fools search outside, unaware.

If God dies, then I will die; If he does not die, then why should I die?

Your Lord lives within you; what do you search for outside?

The Lord is in me, the Lord is in you, as life is in every seed.

When the mind is quiet, then the body is quiet. When the body is quiet, then the soul is quiet. When the soul is quiet, then God is quiet.

The road to God is a narrow one. It is so narrow that two cannot walk abreast.

The breath is the boat, the mind is the oarsman. The body is the river, and the ocean is God.

The river is in the ocean, and the ocean is in the river. The world is in God, and God is in the world.