Maryam Kd

“In order to bring the realm of the spiritual and the divine within the range of perception, humanity … loses the immediate union with the divine and the immediate vision of the spiritual. Then it tries to embody in a tangible or otherwise perceptible form, to materialize what is intangible, and imperceptible. It makes symbols … and sees in them and through them the spiritual and divine substance that has no likeness and could not otherwise be seen.”
― Walter Andrae

“He is One, and number has no place in Him; He is absolute, and dependence is far removed from Him; not that One which reason and understanding can know, not that Absolute which sense and imagination can recognize. He is not multitude, nor paucity;one multiplied by one remains one. In duality is only evil and error; in singleness is never any fault.”
― Sanai

“Beauty attached to God is sacrament, cut off from God it becomes an idol.”
― Frithjof Schuon

“My whole desire is to burn myself away.”
― Hafez, Hafiz of Shiraz: Thirty Poems: An Introduction to the Sufi Master