The mystics have always been tasked with expressing a felt sense of the divine that is ineffable. This nourishment that comes through these words, opens the heart and resounds in our spirit. Here are some favorite quotes from the mystics throughout the ages:
“You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.”
~Teresa d’Avila
“You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.”
~Thomas Merton
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
~ Rumi
“I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.”
~Hafez
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
~Howard Thurman
“The fullness of joy is to behold God in everything.
God is the ground, the substance,
the teaching, the teacher,
the purpose, and the reward for which every soul labors.”
~ Julian of Norwich
“We are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.”
~Thomas Merton
“The soul is one in its nature, but its entities are many.”
~ Dayananda Sarasvati
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
~Rumi
“May today there be peace within. May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be. May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith. May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you. May you be content knowing you are a child of God. Let this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise and love. It is there for each and every one of us.”
~Teresa d’Avila
“Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.”
~Howard Thurman
Starting Wed, Sept 29th, in our next online Anam Cara circle— a place for soul friends to come together in a learning journey, we’ll be weaving in the wisdom of the mystics into living now, in 2021. How to Join
