G od dwells in all beings. But you may be intimate only with good people; you must keep away from the evil-minded. God is even in the tiger; but you cannot embrace the tiger on that account (Laughter.) You may say, "Why run away from a tiger, which is also a manifestation of God? The answer to that is: Those who tell you to run away are also manifestations of God; why shouldn't you listen to them? quote 3172 | Ramakrishna Mahendranath Gupta. The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna. Trans. Swami Nikhilananda. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1942, 1948, 1958, pp. 131-132
I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. quote 2992 | Kabir Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.213
O ne day, Rabia was seen running, carrying fire in one hand and water in the other. They asked her the meaning of her action and where she was going. She replied, I am going to light a fire in Paradise and pour water on Hell, so that both veils (hindrances to the true vision of God) completely disappear." quote 2909 | Rabia al-Adawiyya Rabia, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.86
