Bayazid Bastami famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One has to ascertain the right path for his activities by following in the footsteps of great saintly persons and books of knowledge under the guidance of a spiritual master.
Only he who bestirs himself can advance spiritually. The fool who uses extraneous aids for this, in the form of the ready-made opinions of others, only walks his path as if on crutches, while ignoring his own healthy limbs.
Actually, all paths lead away from the truth...how's that? All paths. There's no such thing as a path to the truth. The truth's already here, where are you going?
History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.
No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
The body is the vehicle of the mind.
Unlike the expressionists, I have never been interested in renewing the world through the vehicle of art.
Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

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