Know that God is never in anything, nor is anything in Him. He is neither inside nor outside of anything. None can see Him, whether wit...

  artist unknown   The Quest for Perfection and Final Enlightenment I used to imagine that someday I would arrive. I’d be fully enlightened....

     A certain man knocked at his friend's door: his friend asked: "Who is there?" He answered "I." "Begone,...

      He who has lifted the veil sees multiplicity in properties, not in Essence; hence he knows that changes in properties cannot touch Ess...

  It may seem like a betrayal to speak of silence, to break an unspoken pact. Yet, whether we are conscious of it or not, it is there, inext...

 “When we are gone, do not look for our tomb in earth, but find it in the hearts of people.” Djalāl ad-Dīn Rûmî

    I am a painter, a maker of the seen and the hidden. Every day I shape sublime forms. And then, when God comes to view them . . . they an...

     O my mind, Worship the lotus feet of the Indestructible One! Whatever thou seest twixt earth and sky Will perish. Why undertake fasts a...