Mahmud Shabistari famous quotes

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Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Knowing #Spirituality #Passing
Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Soul #Atoms #Veils
In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Heart #Men #Self
In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one.... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Unity #Quests #Way
When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Spiritual #Ideas #Church
Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Ocean #Heart #Water
Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Lying #Ocean #Heart
The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Past #Years #Tiny
Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.
-- Mahmud Shabistari

#Heart #Dwelling #Void

First lesson learned: Knowing doesn't hold a candle to doing.
The shuttle is the worst $20 you'll ever save. It adds 90 minutes to whatever a Town Car or cab would have been. You have the unenviable choice between being dropped off last or being dropped off first and having a bunch of losers who can't afford cab fare and have no friends or loved ones with cars knowing exactly where you live.
I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful
Right now you can allow yourself to experience a very simple sense of not knowing - not knowing what or who you are, not knowing what this moment is, not knowing anything. If you give yourself this gift of not knowing and you follow it, a vast spaciousness and mysterious openness dawns within you. Relaxing into not knowing is almost like surrendering into a big, comfortable chair; you just fall into a field of possibility.
Somehow, we have gotten off track from the basics of health and spirituality, and we get in our own way.
There are things coming from me that I felt I wanted to talk about. My search for my own blend of spirituality, my acknowledgement of my sexuality, my being the single mother of a young man.
Insight occurs when, and to the degree that, one knows oneself.
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Here again, I saw life in all its noisy excitement passing me by.

Mahmud Shabistari famous quotes

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