LACK OF AWARENESS
Allow nothing to stand in the way of spiritual advancement. Anything is better than to remain in the merely self-conscious state, which is full of miseries.
- Richard Bucke, from Cosmic Consciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind (Arkana)
A human being is not a human being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people.
- Al-Ghazali, from Al-Ghazali's Path to Sufism: His Deliverance from Error and Five Key Texts
I have learned so much from God that I can no longer call myself
a Christian, a Hindu, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew.
The truth has shared so much of itself with me that I can no longer
think of myself as a man, a woman, an angel, or even pure soul.
Existence has become so saturated with laughter it has freed me of every
concept and image a mind could ever war with.
- Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
Know the true nature of your Beloved.
In His loving eyes, your every thought, word, and movement,
is always, always, beautiful.
- Hafiz
Now is the time to know
That all you do is sacred.
- Hafiz
...earthly language is entirely insufficient to describe what there is of joy, happiness and liveliness contained in the inner wonders of God.
- Jacob Behmen
"Be still and know that I am God" (Psalms 46:10). Never flaunting His omnipresence, the Lord is heard only in the immaculate silences.
- Paramahansa Yogananda