Quotes from the mystics

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me.”
—Meister Eckhart

“Walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one.”
—George Fox

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
—Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their oneness with the universe.”
—Black Elk

“My heart has become capable of every form: it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks… I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love’s camels take, that is my religion and my faith.”
—Ibn Arabi

“Originally there is not a single thing. Where can dust alight?”
—Huineng

“The humble, meek, merciful, just, pious, and devout souls are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask, they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.”
—William Penn

“Truth is One, the sages call it by many names.”
—Upanishads

“If you penetrate to the depths of your own spirit, and you are honest with yourself… you will find yourself in the presence of the Divine, and you will recognize all others there too.”
—Thomas Merton

“The Great Spirit is in all things: he is in the air we breathe. The Great Spirit is our Father, but the Earth is our Mother. She nourishes us.”
—Native Proverb

“I belong to no religion. My religion is Love. Every heart is my temple.”
—Rumi

“The end of words is to bring men to the knowledge and sense of things beyond words.”
—Isaac Penington

“The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh

“God has made different religions to suit different aspirants, times, and countries… All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself.”
—Sri Ramakrishna

“Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost, it will feed thee more. But stand still and act not, and wait in patience, till Light arises out of darkness and leads thee.”
—James Nayler

“All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
—Julian of Norwich

“Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.”
—Chief Seattle

“The soul’s center is God.”
—St. Teresa of Avila

“To study the self is to forget the self. To forget the self is to be awakened by all things.”
—Dōgen Zenji

“The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand… It is silent, like the early morning light; it is modest, like the violet bloom.”
—Ohiyesa (Charles Eastman)

“Our life is love, and peace, and tenderness; and bearing one with another, and forgiving one another, and not laying accusations one against another.”
—Isaac Penington

“Every major religion has similar ideas of love, the same goal of benefiting humanity through spiritual practice, and the same effect of making their followers into better human beings.”
—The Dalai Lama

“We are part of the earth, and it is part of us.”
—Chief Seattle

“I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted, and behold: service was joy.”
—Rabindranath Tagore

“The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao.”
—Lao Tzu

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”
—Martin Buber

“Whether you worship Christ, Krishna, Kali, or Allah, you actually worship the one Light that is also in you.”
—Anandamayi Ma

“In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.”
—St. John of the Cross

“I am He whom I love, and He whom I love is I.”
—Al-Hallaj

“The center of the universe is everywhere.”
—Black Elk

“The aim of all religion is to bring people back to the center, to the point within themselves where they can experience the Divine directly.”
—Bede Griffiths

“God is not in any one religion, but in all hearts.”
—Hazrat Inayat Khan

“The soul of every human being is a spark from the divine flame.”
—Isaac Luria

“Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die.”
—Swami Vivekananda

“One day I shall grasp the soul of the land, the soul of me and the soul of all men. And together we will be free.”

-Chief Dan George