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The Love, Lover, and Beloved are one! Sufi Saying

The whole world belongs to Asga Ya Galun Lati, the Great Spirit. Cherokee Adage

We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything, and that he never forgets, that hereafter he will give every man a spirit home according to his deserts. This I believe, and all my people believe the same. Chief Joseph, Nez Perce (1840)

God Almighty has made us all. Red Cloud, Oglala Sioux (1822)

There are the springs of the Great Spirit... To bathe in them gives new life, to drink temperatures every bodily ill. Arapaho

The Indian believes profoundly in silence -- the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind and spirit. The man who preserves his self-hood is ever calm and unshaken by the storms of existence. What are the fruits of silence? They are self control, true courage or endurance, patience, dignity and reverence. Silence is the cornerstone of character. Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman), Santee Sioux (1858)

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread with in. What ever we do to the well, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. Chief Seattle, Duwamish-Suquamish (1788)

The Earth and myself are of one mind. Chief Joseph, Nez Perce (1840)

There is no death . . . Only a change of worlds. Chief Seattle, Duwamish-Suquamish (1788)

The Great Spirit is the name given to the life force radiating from all creation. This energy is called many things by many different people: the Creator, A'wonawil'onas (Zuni), Wankan-Tankan (Sioux), God, Tirawa (Pawnee), Great Mystery and Grandfather. Anonymous

There is one God looking down on us all. We are all children of one God. God is listening to me. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we now say. Geronimo, Apache (1829)

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. Chief Joseph, Nez Perce (1840)

The perception of the sun by an astronomer and by a scientist is far inferior to the seeing of the invisible God and it is inferior to the knowledge that comes from God. Didymus The Blind (313)

Because the divine and the human are united with one another, Solomon's Song is therefore called the Canticle of Canticles, that is, the best of the best. Gregory Of Elvira (359)

Wisdom of a person makes the face shine, but not the face of the body, not a part of the flesh, but the face of the inner person....The face of the inner person is illuminated by wisdom. But wisdom, light, Logos, truth and the other conceptions are identical when applied to Christ. Didymus The Blind (313)

In the solitary life, what I at hand becomes useless to us and what is wanting cannot be provided, since God the Creator decreed that we should require the help of one another, as it is written in scripture, so that we might associate with one another. Basil The Great (330)

The kingship of the intellect is the crucifixion of the body. The intellect is not subject to God unless the free will is subject to reason. It is hard to convey anything sublime to one who is still a beginner and an infant in stature. Woe to you, O city, when the king is a child. Isaac Of Ninevah (700)

Come hither, eat your bread with joy, that is the mystical bread. Cyril Of Jerusalem (315)

In the future you will not clothe the naked, because everyone will be clothed in eternal light. You will not bury the dead because everyone wil be living life without end. St. Augustine Of Hippo (354)

Grace is not bestowed according to human merits; otherwise grace would no longer be grace. For grace is so designated because it is given gratuitously. St. Augustine Of Hippo (354)

A man's gift is called an upright life. It is that gift that makes room for him and makes him worthy of the fullness of God. It is that very thing which is called the "throne" of the holy powers. Evagrius Of Pontus (345)

Charity bears all things, is long suffering in all things. There is nothing mean to charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the lect of God have been made perfect. Clement Of Rome (35)

Smoldering joy, oft-puffed by meditation,
Blinding my tearful eyes,
Burst into immortal flames of bliss,
Consumed my tears, my frame, my all.
Thou art I, I am Thou,
Knowing, Knower, Known, as One!
Tranquilled, unbroken thrill, eternally living, ever new peace!
Enjoyable beyond imagination of expectancy, samadhi bliss!
Not a mental chloroform
Or unconscious state without wilful return,
Samadhi but extends my conscious realm
Beyond limits of the mortal frame
To farthest boundary of eternity
Where I, the Cosmic Sea,
Watch the little ego floating in me.
Paramhansa Yogananda (1893)

Listen! The Mighty Being is awake, and doth with His eternal motion make, a sound like thunder -- everlastingly. William Wordsworth (1770)

When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in, and passion will make our bodies taut with power. We shall laugh, and institutions will curl up like burnt paper. D. H. Lawrence (1885)