Bob Dylan
Father of night, Father of dayFather, who taketh the darkness awayFather, who teacheth the bird to flyBuilder of rainbows up in the sky
George Harrison
Hazrat Inayat Khan
The mystical path is the most subtle path to tread. The relation between the teacher and pupil is too subtle for words to express. Besides the language of a mystical teacher is always elusive. You cannot, so to speak, pin him, not his words. You cannot ask of him…
Mawlana Rumi
Traditional Sufi saying (author unknown)
Whoever is taught the mysteries of God,His mouth has become sealed and his lips sewn
Shaykh Abu Bakr Shibli
Dhu’n Nun
amütu wa må måtat ilayka sabåbati
I may die, but my passion for You does not die
Joni Mitchell
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore
Sometimes I get tired of all this talk about Godand I just want to go and sit under a tree
but then the tree starts talking to me about Godand we find ourselves in another conversation
Yusuf Misdaq
1
Wherefore art Thou?
2
I’ve said the word ‘before’In my head enough timesAnd now it rhymes with silence and has lost all meaning