I searched for my Beloved in the strangest of places, until the day I realized I couldn't take my eyes off Her.
To Be One With The One Is Not For Everyone
(n.) A title or surname of the king of Persia.
(n.) One of a certain order of religious men in Persia.
Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.
Don't Worry Be Happy
Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighbourhood of despair.Even when all doors remain closed, God wil open up a new path only for you. Be thank...
When people have a hard task to do - one which stretches them - they become less concerned with trivial matters.
With faith one attains and realises peace and harmony. With doubt one destroys and gains freedom to move ontowards.
You must empty out the dirty water before you fill the pitcher with clean.
But promoting philosophical skepticism is not quite the mission of this book. If awareness of the Black Swan problem can lead us into withdrawal and extreme skepticism, I take here the exact opposite...
When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety;if I sit in my own place of patience,what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I wan...
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed,cut holes in it, and called it a human being.Since then, it's been wailing a tender agonyof parting, never mentioning the skillthat gave it life as a flute
The true saint goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in the market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single mo...
There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?'The lover replied, 'It is I.''Go hence,' returned the voice;'there is no room within for thee and me...
When no one is looking,I swallow deserts and cloudsand chew on mountainsknowing they are sweet bones!When no one is lookingand I want to kiss God,I just lift my own hand to my mouth.