Truth suffers no loss if a vehement youth fails in finding it, in the same way that virtue and religion suffer no detriment if a criminal denies them.
Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.
Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.
The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.
Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.
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.
If our hearts are ready for anything, we can open to our inevitable losses, and to the depths of our sorrow. We can grieve our lost loves, our lost youth, our lost health, our lost capacities. This is part of our humanness, part of the expression of our love for life.
The concept of dreaming is known to the waking mind but to the dreamer there is no waking, no real world, no sanity; there is only the screaming bedlam of sleep.
A lot of people who work in computers think that the world is like them.
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.