Be certain in the religion of Love there are no believers or unbelievers. Love embraces all. Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207 – 1273)
Richard Rolle Quote – “Love is the fairest and most profitable guest…”
Those for whom the world smells only of matter, smell themselves only; those that see nothing but passing phenomena, see themselves and no deeper. Not in contemplation of the stars that wheel across the sky shall we discover Thee, O God, Thou who didst enrich with madness Don Quixote! The discovery comes by watching, from the depths of our hearts, […]
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “You, sent out beyond your recall…”
You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “I don’t want to think a place for you…”
I don’t want to think a place for you. Speak to me from everywhere. Your Gospel can be comprehended without looking for its source. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926)
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “There is but one solitude, and that is great…”
But if then you notice that it is great, rejoice because of this, for what (ask yourself) would solitude be that had no greatness. There is but one solitude, and that is great, and not easy to bear, and to almost everybody come hours when they would gladly exchange it for any sort of intercourse, however banal and cheap, for […]
Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes – “Of all who move through the quiet houses, you are the quietest…”
You come and go. The doors swing closed ever more gently, almost without a shudder. Of all who move through the quiet houses, you are the quietest. We become so accustomed to you, we no longer look up when your shadow falls over the book we are reading and makes it glow. For all things sing you: at times we […]
Rainer Maria Rilke Quote – “This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively…”
The Man Watching I can tell by the way the trees beat, after so many dull days, on my worried windowpanes that a storm is coming, and I hear the far-off fields say things I can’t bear without a friend, I can’t love without a sister. The storm, the shifter of shapes, drives on across the woods and across time, […]
Mahmud Shabistari Quote – “Go sweep out the chamber of your heart…”
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. Mahmud Shabistari (1288 – 1340)
Arthur Schopenhauer Quote – “All truth passes through three stages…”
All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860)
Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki Quote – “It is useless for the ‘self’ to try to ‘purify itself’…”
It is useless for the “self” to try to “purify itself,” or for the “self” to “make a place in itself” for God. Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki (1870 – 1966)