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-

"Only God can move mountains,
but faith and prayer can move God"

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Once God, that Great Being,
Whose nature is Existence, Knowledge and Bliss, slept.
He was like a man in deep sleep
Who is, but does not know that He is.
He had no knowledge of His knowledge nor experience of His bliss.
He was like a still, shorless Ocean which no wind or wave moved upon. 
There was nothing but Him.
There were no stars nor sun nor earth nor anything.
All things were within Him; but since He slept,
They also were asleep, unformed and unmanifest.
All knowledge of Himself and of all things were in Him,
But He did not know that He knew.
Then there surged within Him the desire (Whim) to know:Who He was; 
and He spoke within Himself the First Speech,
"WHO AM I?" And with the utterance of this First Speech
All things in their potentiality came forth from Him.
But all things are Nothing; and so the universe of stars and suns Is nothing. 
Nothing is included in His Everything......
Each thing He brought forth out of Nothing and caused to exist.
He created stone; thought He was stone; lived as stone.
Millions of years, and then said, "Something other am I."
He created vegetation; though He was vegetation; lived as vegetation.
Millions of years, and then said, "Something other am I."
He created in turn worms and reptiles, fishes, birds and animals,
And in turn thought He was, and lived as each, of these.
Then He created Man, and said, "This is sufficient for all My requirements.
I know Myself who I am, because this is in My own Image, Myself."

"You have infused my being

Through and through;

As an intimate friend must

always do.

So when I speak, I speak of only You.

And when silent I yearn for You"

(Rabia Al Adawiyya)

"An angel whispered in my ear today of peace and joy and love.
Not just for me but for all humankind,
The angel said that we are the beautiful sparks that shot off from God..........
We are the many and we are the one.
When we fight, we fight with ourselves.
When we love, we love ourselves..........
We all know this in our true selves.
We all know this in our souls."

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..A True Prayer.....
Jalaluddin Rumi tells the Lord, “I am weak, O Lord! If I ever ask for something from You, please don’t listen to me. And even if You do, please don’t act upon it. Let Your Will alone be fulfilled. My happiness lies in what pleases You. I don’t even understand what is good for me! Whatever You do is right, even if I don’t understand it.”
Is prayer meant to change the Will of God or to change us? A true prayer begins as a request to change oneself and culminates in a tranquil.... silent and thoughtless state of mind.
On the other hand, any request to change circumstances cannot be called a prayer.

(Gurudev Shri Rakeshbha)

To see, purely and simply, without name,

without expectations, fears, or hopes,

at the edge where

there is no I or not-I.

Czeslaw Milosz

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Don't speak of your suffering -- He is speaking.
Don't look for Him everywhere -- He's looking for you.
- Sanai -

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"Outwardly, determined effort is necessary.
But within, nothing is needed
except to yield."

"Every noble action is ritual --
an attempt to awaken wholeness and holiness
within
by enacting it externally."

"Brick by brick
break down the walls
that divide you
from the open Mystery."

Attitude Of Gratitude

"We know that the Universe is complete and perfect in all respects.It has provided everything for our needs but little for our greed.So, scarcity is an illusion which exists only in our minds.
We should, therefore,recognise and appreciate what we have got and what others have done for us.Instead of focusing on thoughts on what is missing in our lives i.e. money, house,status etc. we should feel deep gratitude for all that has been bestowed upon us by the Almighty.

We should,therefore, make gratitude our attitude towards life because Abundance does not come from anywhere else but from within ourselves."

"A student asks the teacher, "I traveled to Mecca and did not find God
there."
The teacher replies, "Yes, God wasn't there. He was traveling
with you."

"Even God doesn't plan to judge a man until the end of his days. Why should you and I?"

"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer."

No tongue can tell Your secret

No tongue can tell Your secret

for the measure of the word obscures Your nature.

But the gift of the ear

is that it hears

what the tongue cannot tell.

By Hakim Sanai

(English version by Priya Hemenway)

Peeking in to God's Mind

Everything we see that He created
Is peeking into God's mind.
Just Look at the things here on earth,
and in the universe too which we can find,
we are seeing the final results of His thoughts,
of everything He did and does today.
Let's give Him thanks for He created us too,
all you have to do is pray.
God's mind is a most magnificent thing,
Just look around and you'll see,
All the things that He thought of
and created, all miracles to be.
Every thing we see that He created..
is peeking into God's mind,
He is our Lord God Almighty,
He loves us all we find.
(Anne R. C. Neale)

One Light

"What are "I" and "You"?

Just lattices

In the niches of a lamp

Through which the One Light radiates.

"I" and "You" are the veil

Between heaven and earth;

Lift this veil and you will see...

How all sects and religions are one.

Lift this veil and you will ask --

When "I" and "You" do not exist..

What is mosque?

What is synagogue?
What is fire temple?"

                                                                                              

All men to me are god-like Gods!

All men to me are god-like Gods!
My eyes no longer see
vice or fault.
Life on this suffering earth
is now endless delight;
the heart at rest, full, overflowing.
In the mirror, the face and its reflection
watch each other;
different, but one.
And, when the stream pours into the ocean...
no more stream!
By Tukaram(English version by Ivan M. Granger)