Faith & Spirituality Sayings

Take a pitcher full of water and set it down in the water-now it has water inside and water outside. We mustn't give it a name, lest silly people start talking again about the body and the soul.

If you do not cut the noose of your karma while living, what hope is there of liberation when you are dead? It is a hopeless dream to think that union will come after the soul leaves the body.

Friend, hope for the Guest while you are alive. Jump into experience while you are alive! Think . . . and think . . . while you are alive. What you call 'salvation' belongs to the time before death . . . .

If by worshipping stones one can find God, I shall worship a mountain. If by immersion in the water salvation be attained, the frogs who bathe continually would attain it. As the frogs, so are these men, again and again fall into the womb. You kill l…

I shut not my eyes, I close not my ears, I do not mortify my body; I see with eyes open and smile, and behold His beauty everywhere: I utter His Name, and whatever I see, it reminds me of Him; whatever I do, it becomes His worship. The rising and the…

To what shore would you cross, O my heart? there is no traveller before you, there is no road: Where is the movement, where is the rest, on that shore? There is no water; no boat, no boatman, is there; There is not so much as a rope to tow the boat, …

Flying waters descending straight three thousand feet, Till I think the Milky Way has tumbled from the ninth height of Heaven.

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.

The earth is the cup of the river, and heaven the moon’s mirror.

One should not consider as a defect the fact that the Torah provides for the well-being of the body, as it provides for the well-being of the soul.

It is not the eye that sees, but the soul that sees through the eye.

The highest degree of love for God consists in occupying oneself with His law, not for the sake of reward, but for the sake of the love itself.

The true perfection of man is to attain to the knowledge of God.

The knowledge of God is not acquired by speculation, but by the study of His works.

The human intellect is a part of the divine emanation which is united with man.

The human mind is unable to grasp the true essence of God.

The man who is perfect in his knowledge of God is he who has attained to the knowledge of all things that exist.

The best way to serve God is to acquire knowledge.

The human soul is a spiritual substance, and it is immortal.

The human being is composed of body and soul, and the soul is the principal part.