Spiritual Journey

The journey of thousand miles begins with one step...

Spiritual Journey

The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long.

I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage through the wildernesses of worlds leaving my track on many a star and planet.

It is the most distant course that comes nearest to thyself, and that training is the most intricate which leads to the utter simplicity of a tune.

The traveller has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

My eyes strayed far and wide before I shut them and said `Here art thou!'

The question and the cry `Oh, where?' melt into tears of a thousand streams and deluge the world with the flood of the assurance `I am!'

Spiritual Journey

~ Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl.

~ If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

~ He (GOD) is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, 'Live!'

~ Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.

~ Appear as you are, Be as you appear.

~ When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

~ Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls.

~ In silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and watch how the pattern improves.

~ Patience is the key to joy.

~ Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.

~ The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.

~ To praise is to praise how one surrenders to the emptiness.

~ We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.

~ Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

~ Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

~ My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.

~ Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

~ You wander from room to room

Hunting for the diamond necklace

That is already around your neck!

Spiritual Journey

A disciple went to Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav:

"I shall not continue with my studies of sacred texts," he said. "I live in a small house with my brothers and parents, and never have the ideal conditions for concentrating on that which is important."

Nachman pointed to the sun and asked his disciple to place his hand over his face, in order to hide it. The disciple obeyed.

"Your hand is small, yet it can completely cover the power, light and majesty of the great sun. In the same way, the small problems manage to give you the excuse you need in order to hinder your progress along your spiritual journey.

“Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.”