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T his vision you have seen
is indeed rare;
even the gods are ever-wishing for such a sight.

Not through study of the scriptures, austerities, charity, or sacrifice
can I be seen as you have seen me.

0 Arjuna, only by the
unswerving love of the heart
can my supreme state be seen,
and known, and attained.


quote 3012  | 
Chapter 11, translated by Jonathan Star and Julle Lal, the Inner Treasure, Tarcher Putnam. 




I f love manifests itself within you, it has its origins in beauty. You are nothing but a mirror in which beauty is reflected. Because beauty and its reflection are both from that one source, it is both treasure and treasure-house.


quote 2997  | 
Jami, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.121 




B e the captive of Love in order that you may be truly free -free from coldness and the worship of self. Thousands have passed who were wise and learned but who were strangers to Love. No name is left to them, nothing to proclaim their fame and dignity or to relate their history in the march of time. Although you may attempt to do a hundred things in this world, only Love will give you release from the bondage of yourself.


quote 2996  | 
Jami, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.115 




F asting is a way to save on food. Vigil and prayer is a labor for old folks. Pilgrimage is an occasion for tourism. To distribute bread in aims is something for philanthropists. Fall in love: That is doing something!


quote 2981  |   Others Sufis Teaching
Ansari, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.102 




F rom each, Love demands a mystic silence.
What do all seek so earnestly? Tis Love.
Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts,
In Love no longer "Thou" and "I" exist,
For self has passed away in the Beloved.
Now will I draw aside the veil from Love,
And in the temple of mine inmost soul
Behold the Friend, Incomparable Love.
He who would know the secret of both worlds
Will find that the secret of them both is Love.


quote 2961  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.118 




A person often remembers the object of his love. One lover of God also remembers Him, always and everywhere. On the bough of the beloved's rosebush, love's nightingale sings its love incessantly.


quote 2944  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.121 




L ove makes us speak; love makes us moan; love makes us die; love brings us to life; love makes us drunk and bewildered; it sometimes makes one a king. Love and the lover have no rigid doctrine. Whichever direction the lover takes, he turns toward his beloved. Wherever he may be, he is with his beloved. Wherever he goes, he goes with his beloved. He cannot do anything, cannot survive for even one moment, without his beloved. He constantly recalls his beloved, as his beloved re members him. Lover and beloved, rememberer and remembered, are ever in each other's company, always together.


quote 2942  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.117 




L ove is to see what is good and beautiful in everything. It is to learn from everything, to see the gifts of God and the generosity of God in everything. It is to be thankful for all God's bounties.
This is the first step on the road to the love of God. This is just a seed of love. In time, the seed will grow and become a tree and bear fruit. Then, whoever tastes of that fruit will know what real love is. It will be difficult for those who have tasted to tell of it to those who have not.


quote 2941  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.114 




L eave everything and cleave to love! Turn your heart from all else; feel love in your whole being! Take love as your guide to the land of being so that you may reach the True Beloved, enter the Paradise of God's essence, behold the beauty of the Friend, gather the roses of the garden of Union. In the way of love, the lover sacrifices himself but finds the dear one. All the saints who have drunk of the wine of love have sacrificed themselves thus in the way of love.


quote 2940  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.114 




B y love, bitter things are made sweet and copper turns to go .
By love, the sediment becomes clear and torment is removed.
By love, the dead are made to live.
By love, the sovereign is made a slave.
This love is the fruit of knowledge. When did folly sit on a throne like this?
The faith of love is separated from all religion. For lovers the faith and the religion is God. 0 spirit, in striving and seeking become like running water. 0 reason, at all times be ready to give up mortality for the sake of immortality.
Remember God always, that self may be forgotten, so that your self may be effaced in the One to Whom you pray, without care for who is praying, or the prayer.


quote 2932  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.117 




T here is no salvation for the soul
But to fall in Love.
It has to creep and crawl
Among the Lovers first.

Only Lovers can escape
From these two worlds.
This was written in creation.

Only from the Heart
Can you reach the sky. The rose of Glory
Can only be raised in the Heart.


quote 2931  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.115 




W ish for others whatever you wish for yourself.


quote 2913  | 
Hadith, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.88 




T he Sufis are those who have preferred God to everything, so that God has preferred them to everything.


quote 2863  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.36 




T he eyes of the dervish who is a true lover see nought but God; his heart knows nought but Him. God is the eye by which he sees, the hand with which he holds, and the tongue with which he speaks…. Were he not in love, he would pass away. If his heart should be devoid of love for as much as a single moment, the dervish could not stay alive. Love is the dervish's life, his health, his comfort. Love ruins the dervish, makes him weep; union makes him flourish, brings him to life.


quote 2857  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.15 




T he essence of God is love and the Sufi path is a path of love…. Love is to see what is good and beautiful in everything. It is to learn from everything, to see the gifts of God and the generosity of God in everything. It is to be thankful for all God's bounties.


quote 2855  | 
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.14 




B efore this Divine fire of love is introduced into the substance of the soul, and is united with it, by means of a purity and purgation that is perfect and complete, this flame is wounding the soul, and destroying and consuming in it the imperfections of its evil habits; and this is the operation of the Holy Spirit, wherein he prepares it for Divine union and the transformation of its substance in God through love.


quote 2846  | 
Saint John of the Cross, taken from Saint John of the Cross: Poems, translated by Willis Barnstone (New York: New Directions, 1972). 




O ur activity consists in loving God and our fruition in enduring God and being penetrated by his love. There is a distinction between love and fruition, as there is between God and his Grace. When we unite ourselves to God by love, then we are spirit; but when we are caught up and transformed by his Spirit, then we are led into fruition. And the spirit of God himself breathes us out from himself that we may love and may do good works; and again he draws us into himself, that we may rest in fruition. And this is Eternal Life; even as our mortal life subsists in the indrawing and outgoing of our breath.


quote 2835  | 
John Ruusbroec, adapted from the translation by Evelyn Underhill in Mysticism (London: Methuen, 1911). 




A nd though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not;
charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.


quote 2794  | 
St. Paul, I Corinthians 13:1-13 (AV), taken from the 1611 King James Version of the Bible 




W hat you must do is love your neighbor as yourself. There is no one who knows your many faults better than you! But you love yourself notwithstanding. And so you must love your neighbor, no matter how many faults you see in him.


quote 2776  | 
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.83 




T o love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that, he is lying.


quote 2775  | 
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.82 




W e should also pray for the wicked among the peoples of the world; we should love them too.


quote 2774  | 
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.82 




R abbi Mikhal gave this command to his sons: "Pray for your enemies that all may be well with them. And should you think this is not serving God, rest assured that, more than all our prayers, this love is indeed the service of God."


quote 2773  | 
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.82 




Q uestion: We are commanded to love our neighbor as ourselves. How can I do this if my neighbor has wronged me?
Answer: You must understand these words rightly. Love your neighbor as something which you yourself are. For all souls are one. Each is a spark from the original soul, and this soul is inherent in all souls, just as your soul is inherent in all the members of your body. It may come to pass that your hand will make a mistake and strike you. But would you then take a stick and chastise your hand because it lacked understanding, and so increase your pain? It is the same if your neighbor, who is of one soul with you, wrongs you because of his lack of understanding. If you punish him, you only hurt yourself.
Question: But if I see a man who is wicked before God, how can I love him?
Answer: Don't you know that the primordial soul came out of the essence of God, and that every human soul is a part of God? And will you have no mercy on man, when you see that one of his holy sparks has been lost in a maze and is almost stifled?


quote 2772  | 
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.82 




W hen a man grows aware of a new way in which to serve God, he should carry it around with him secretly, and without uttering it, for nine months, as though he were pregnant with it, and let others know of it only at the end of that time, as though it were a birth.


quote 2770  | 
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.74 




M an should serve God with all his strength, for all of it is needed. God wants us to serve him in all ways. And this is what is meant: It sometimes happens that a man takes a walk and talks with one person or another. And since, during this time, he cannot study, he should cling to God and join the Names of God with his soul. And when a man goes on a journey and cannot pray as usual, he should serve God in other ways. Let him not grieve because of this, for God wants us to serve him in all ways, now in this way and now in that way, and it is he who bade the man talk to people or undertake a journey, so that God might be served in these ways as well.


quote 2758  | 
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.53 



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