Jellaladdin Rumi
– Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.
– I know you’re tired, but come. This is the way.
– Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor.
– Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.
– You have within you more love than you could ever understand.
– You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?
– Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought.
Shams Tabrizi
– When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.
– … a Sufi is thankful not only for what he has been given but also for all that he has been denied. Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn’t take you into the house.
Ibn Arabi
– God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
– It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
– Real learning comes about when the competitive spirit has ceased.
– Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is
there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.
– I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. … The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
Ramana Maharshi
– Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Hafez (Khwaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammed Hafez-e Shiraz)
– I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.
– Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
– The heart is the secret inside the secret.
– You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
– Go deeply into love, find its true and lasting source, and you will never leave it again.
– Play all day with nothing to do. See who you really are when there is no headwind.
– Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?
– You are woven from the running streams and rivers of Joy.
– Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.