While reason is still tracking down the secret, you end your quest on the open field of love. Hakim Sanai (circa 1080 – 1141)
Hakim Sanai Quote – “When you sincerely enter into prayer…”
When you sincerely enter into prayer, you will come forth with all your prayers answered. But a hundred prayers that lack sincerity will leave you still the bungler that you are, your work a failure. Prayers said from habit are like the dust that scatters in the wind. The prayers that reach God’s court are uttered by the soul. Hakim […]
Hakim Sanai Quote – “Bring all of yourself to his door…”
Bring all of yourself to his door. Bring only a part, and you’ve brought nothing at all. 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)
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 – “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)
Wu-men Hui-kai Quote – “If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form…”
If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don’t seek, how are you different from earth, wood, or stone? You must seek without seeking. Wu-men Hui-kai (1183 – 1260)
H. G. Wells Quote – “It is the going out from oneself that is love…”
It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed. H. G. Wells (1866 – 1946)
William Wordsworth Quote – “Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…”
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life’s star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
Walt Whitman Quote – “I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you…”
Dear camerado! I confess I have urged you onward with me, and still urge you, without the least idea what is our destination, Or whether we shall be victorious, or utterly quell’d and defeated. Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892)