Inviting the contemplative experience simply includes the natural human capacity for knowing through silence, pondering deeply, beholding, witnessing the contents of consciousness and so forth.

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O Son of Man!

I loved thy creation, hence I created thee. Wherefore, do thou love Me, that I may name thy name and fill thy soul with the spirit of life.

Whither can a lover go but to the land of his Beloved?

What's important is not only how you feel which is where we so often concentrate, but what values you hold that then determine the meaning of your feeling. 

- Viktor Frankl

A peripheral perception beyond what eyes can see,

relates us to the expansive realm where truth resides,

a heavenly discernment,

a quiet proclamation.

Your unhappiness ultimately arises not from the circumstances of your life but from the conditioning of your mind.

Stillness Speaks

“The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.” 

― Rumi

“Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character which determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one 'object' of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.” -Erich Fromm

I am a raft on His surging sea.

My rising

and falling

and pitching are His doing.

Sometimes I think it’s my doing.

That too, is His doing.

-Rumi

(Translation: JTavangar)

When you love, give it everything you’ve got and when you’ve reached your limit, give it more and forget the pain of it because as you face your death, it’s only the love which will count. All the rest – the accomplishments and struggles, the fights ? will be forgotten in your reflection and if you have loved well, then it will have been worth it and the joy of it will last you through to the end, but if you have not death will always come too soon and be too terrible to face. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. -William Hutchison Murray

“Seeing light is a metaphor for seeing the invisible in the visible, for detecting the fragile imaginal garment that holds our planet and all existance together. Once we have learned to see the light, surely everything else will follow."

― Arthur Zajonc

The human spirit with the mind as it’s essential quality, can never be satisfied, because its nature inclines it towards transcendence- an invisible realm, towards the ultimate reality, that unknowable essence of essences called God.

I want to be where your bare foot walks,

because maybe before you step, you’ll look at the ground.

I want that blessing.

-Rumi

“Tell the rich of the midnight sighing of the poor.” Bahá’u’lláh