Mahmud Shabistari Quotes

#1. Every particle of the world is a mirror. In each atom blazes forth the light of a thousand suns. Open the heart of a raindrop and you will find a hundred oceans. In a grain of sand lies the seed of a thousand beings.

Mahmud Shabistari

#2. When "I" and "You" are absent, I've no idea if this is a mosque, synagogue, church or temple

Mahmud Shabistari

#3. Go sweep out the chamber of your heart.
Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved.
When you depart out, He will enter it.
In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.

Mahmud Shabistari

#4. Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.

Mahmud Shabistari

#5. The past has flown away. The coming month and year do not exist. Ours only is the present's tiny point.

Mahmud Shabistari

#6. In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

Mahmud Shabistari

#7. In God there is no duality. In that Presence "I" and "we" and "you" do not exist. "I" and "you" and "we" and "He" become one ... Since in the Unity there is no distinction, the Quest and the Way and the Seeker become one.

Mahmud Shabistari

#8. Knowing is passing from the false to the true and seeing the Absolute Whole in the part.

Mahmud Shabistari

#9. Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

Mahmud Shabistari