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"Every experience on the physical, astral or mental plane is just a dream before the soul." -       Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Love is the best means of making the heart capable of reflecting the soul-power and love in the sense of pain rather than pleasure. Every blow opens a door whence the soul-power comes forth."                 - Hazrat Inayat Khan

" We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences." - Jallaluddin Rumi

"It is easy to love a perfect God, unblemished and infallible that He is. What is far more difficult is to love fellow human beings, with all of their imperfections and defects. Remember, one can only know what one is capable of loving. There is no wisdom without love. Unless we learn to love God's creation, we can neither truly love, nor truly know God."
- Shamus-i Tabrizi

“I searched for God among the Christians and on the Cross and therein I found Him not. I went into the ancient temples of idolatry; no trace of Him was there. I entered the mountain cave of Hira and then went as far as Qandhar but God I found not. With set purpose I fared to the summit of Mount Caucasus and found there only 'anqa's habitation. Then I directed my search to the Kaaba, the resort of old and young; God was not there even. Turning to philosophy I inquired about him from ibn Sina but found Him not within his range. I fared then to the scene of the Prophet's experience of a great divine manifestation only a "two bow-lengths' distance from him" but God was not there even in that exalted court. Finally, I looked into my own heart and there I saw Him; He was nowhere else.” - Jalaudin Rumi

"Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all. I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam or Eve or any origin story. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. Neither body or soul. I belong to the Beloved, have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know, first, last, outer, inner, only that breath breathing human being." - Jalaluddin Rumi

"Be silent and listen to the Five Sounds from Heaven.
The Heaven which is beyond all senses and directions.
Every moment of life this wondrous Sound reaches down from the Courts of Heaven.
Fortunate above all the children of men is he who hears its enchanting melodies."
-- Shamus-i Tabrizi

“Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.”
                                                                   - Guru Nanak

“As fragrance abides in the flower
As reflection is within the mirror,
So does your Lord abide within you,
Why search for him without?”
                                                                   - Guru Nanak

"All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop."                                                                                                            - Kabir

"Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you."
                                                                                                                         - Kabir

"He is the real Guru Who can reveal the form of the formless before your eyes; who teaches the simple path, without rites or ceremonies; Who does not make you close your doors, and hold your breath, and renounce the world; Who makes you perceive the Supreme Spirit whenever the mind attaches itself; Who teaches you to be still in the midst of all your activities. Fearless, always immersed in bliss, he keeps the spirit of yoga in the midst of enjoyments."                                                                                             - Kabir

"Music without words means
leaving behind the mind.
And leaving behind the mind
is meditation.
Meditation returns you
to the source.
And the source of all is sound."
                                                                                                            - Kabir

"God made a statue of clay in His own image, and asked the Soul to enter into it; but the Soul refused to be imprisoned, for Its nature is to fly about freely and not to be limited and bound to any sort of capacity. The Soul did not wish in the least to enter into this prison. Then God asked the angels to play their Music, and as the angels played the Soul was moved to ecstasy, in order to make the Music more clear to Itself, It entered his body.  People say that the Soul, upon hearing that Song entered the body; but in reality the Soul Itself was the Song."
                                                                                                           - Hafiz

"Your love
Should never be offered to the mouth of a
Stranger,
Only to someone
Who has the valor and daring
To cut pieces of their Soul off with a knife
Then weave them into a blanket
To protect you."
                                                                                                           - Hafiz

All the sleepers in a night of delusion beholding so many dreams. In this world of darkness, only those who sever themselves from the meterial world, become absorbed in the contemplation of the supreme. None can be regarded as really woken up from sleep till they have renounced all sensuous delights.
                                                                                                            - Tulsidas

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