Bayazid Bastami quotes
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“All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.”
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“I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.”
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“I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.”
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“Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.”
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“Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me”
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“All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.”
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“For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.”
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“The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.”
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Source : Abd-ru-shin (1998). “In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message”, p.4, Grail Foundation Press
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“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”
Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House
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“No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”
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“Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.”
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“Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.”
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Source : Interview with Ken P., www.ign.com. November 25, 2002.
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