Love’s conqueror is he whom love conquers. Hakim Sanai (circa 1080 – 1141)
Hakim Sanai Quote – “No tongue can tell Your secret…”
No tongue can tell Your secret For the measure of the word obscures Your nature But the gift of the ear Is that it hears What the tongue cannot tell. Hakim Sanai (circa 1080 – 1141)
Hakim Sanai Quote – “It is useless quibbling over a mere word…”
It is useless quibbling over a mere word, even if that word is God. To accept or reject it, when we have no knowledge of what it may represent, is equally inappropriate. God is a mystery, and the mystery remains, whatever name we give to it. Hakim Sanai (circa 1080 – 1141), from The Walled Garden of Truth
Hakim Sanai Quote – “The special form of friendship and love which grows between teacher and pupil…”
The special form of friendship and love which grows between teacher and pupil is simultaneously a bond of friendship between man and God. Such a process is the very reverse of hero-worship. The teacher systematically and very effectively rejects those manifestations from his charges which have their origins in the self. Pupils are weaned at the outset from the tendency […]
Edith Wharton Quote – “There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or…”
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton (1862 – 1937)
Alan Watts Quote – “The meaning of life is just to be alive…”
The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves. Alan Watts (1915 – 1973)
Alan Watts Quote – “Steadily he approaches the point where what is unknown…”
Steadily he approaches the point where what is unknown is not a mere blank space in a web of words but a window in the mind, a window whose name is not ignorance but wonder. Alan Watts (1915 – 1973)
Alan Watts Quote – “The split between I and me, man and the world…”
Discovering this the mind becomes whole: the split between I and me, man and the world, the ideal and the real, comes to an end. Paranoia, the mind beside itself, becomes metanoia, the mind with itself and so free from itself. Alan Watts (1915 – 1973)
Alan Watts Quote – “The only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets…”
Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery — the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together. Alan Watts (1915 – 1973)
Alan Watts Quote – “The bamboo shadows Sweep the steps But raise no dust.”
The bamboo shadows Sweep the steps But raise no dust. Alan Watts (1915 – 1973)
