I am the slave of that perfect Moon!
Don't talk to me of suffering, I don't want to hear.
Talk about light, joy and sweetness
and if you can't, keep silent!
(Rumi)

If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him.
If you seek Him, you are absent from Him.
If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him.
If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.
(Ibn Ata'llah)

"Thou art? -- I am? -- Why argue? -- Being is.
Keep still and be. Death will not still the mind.
Nor argument, nor hopes of after-death.
This world the battle-ground, yourself the foe.
Yourself must master. Eager the mind to seek.
Yet oft astray, causing its own distress.
Then crying for relief, as though some God
Barred from it jealously the Bliss it sought......"

  I am a fountain, You are my water.
I flow from You to You.
I am an eye, You are my light.....
I look from You to You.
You are neither my right nor my left.
You are my foot and my arm as well.
I am a traveler, You are my road....
I go from You to You.
~Zentep-

"Thunder makes a loud noise but it's the quiet sky that lasts."

"Gratitude is an ascending reflection of a descending grace."