Top 17 Bayazid Quotes
#1. The rules themselves are clear enough, and within everyone's reach. But many forces, both within ourselves and in the environment, stand in the way. It is a little like trying to lose weight: everyone knows what it takes, everyone wants to do it, yet it is next to impossible for so many.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#2. When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.
Michael Douglas
#3. For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.
Bayazid Bastami
#4. All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
Bayazid Bastami
#5. The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.
Bayazid Bastami
#8. Growled. Like a pissed-off wolf. No, like a whiny dog, I told myself firmly. One of those little yappy ones. Wolves kicked ass and Hunter didn't. He was a giant, fake asshole.
Joanna Wylde
#9. I was twelve. I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.
Elie Wiesel
#11. Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.
Channing Tatum
#12. All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's
Divine Presence.
Bayazid Bastami
#14. I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
Bayazid Bastami
#15. The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
Martin Gardner
#16. I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.
Bayazid Bastami
#17. Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me
Bayazid Bastami
