MYSTICISM
A man will not be a mystic until he is like the earth - both the righteous and the sinner tread upon it - and until he is like the clouds - they shade all things - and until he is like the rain - it waters all things, whether it loves them or not.
- Bayezid Bistami
quoted in
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce with mankind, but the "true saint" goes in and out amongst the people and eats and sleeps with them and buys and sells in tyhe market and marries and takes part in social intercourse, and never forgets God for a single moment.
- Abu Sa'id Ibn Abi-L-Khayr,
quoted in Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
Sometimes I go about pitying myself
And all the while
I am being carried across the sky
By beautiful clouds.
- Ojibway Indian Poem
Inside the Great Mystery that is,
we don't really own anything.
What is this competition we feel then,
before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
- Rumi, tr. Moyne and Barks, quoted in After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path
I thank You God for most this amazing day;
for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;
and for everything which is natural
which is infinite
which is yes.
- e.e. cummings