Quotations

There are many other things you have to figure out. One is the water. The other is the boat.

“Urdhva-moolam adhah-sakham, asvathaam prahur avyayam, chandamsi yasya parnani, yas tam veda sa veda-vit”.

Superficially, most of the Nasiruddin stories are seen as jokes. They are told and retold endlessly in teahouses, in caravans,

I quote another Sufi teacher called Hakim of Sinai, from a book called ‘The Walled Garden of Truth’: “When you arrive at the sea,

When the heart unconditionally, without any worry of the consequences, surrenders itself at the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord

The Sufis also sang about love. In fact, there is a beautiful Sufi poem. It’s about love; it’s about losing oneself

All the great Bhakti poets wrote about love. Kabir, Tulsi, and Meerabai were ready to give up their lives

What is Bhakti? A love that is completely surrendering, not for our sake but for the one we love.

When a person is on the spiritual journey, he should not cry over what he loses.

This one-pointed attention to the Supreme Lord, this all-consuming love for the Lord is expressed by the great Sufi,

The mind is evolving, and therefore, many a time, the higher intelligence guides our evolution.

Jalaluddin Rumi, the great mystic poet, said, “I was a mineral, I became a plant.

Man has evolved from an amoeba to this present state. Physically, yes! But are we going to be unscientific and say,

At a particular stage of one’s life, or one’s spiritual journey, when we do not get what we thought is necessary

When we are on the path of spiritual progress, or even when we are not, very often we don’t get what we want;