When you have closed your doors and made all dark within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; God is within, and your genius is within.
I am different from other people: I drink from the Great Mother's breast.
To put it another way: God is the most obvious thing in the world, so obvious that we look right past Him.
Real wisdom is the property of the divine, and human wisdom has little or no value.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways—I to die, and you to live. Which is better only the divine knows.
The greatest blessing granted to human beings is love, when guided by the yearning for divine wisdom.
Truth is the ultimate sovereign. Where Truth is, there is God.
Your highest duty is to realize your oneness with the Divine.
The world is not an illusion to be escaped; it is the field of divine manifestation.
As the scent dwells in the flower and the shadow in the tree, so the Divine resides within you; seek Him there, O traveler.
He who sees the Divine in all beings and all beings in the Divine never turns away from truth.
I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through—listen to this music!
Silence is the space in which the absolute manifests itself.
The temple of God is inside you. Do not wander in stone temples.
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.
Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.
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