Bayazid Bastami Quotes

• 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

  God, Reality, Years

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• I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Silence, Shining, Lamps

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• 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

  Silence, Desire, Veils

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• Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Self, Remembrance, Forgetfulness

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• 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

  Choices, Ignorant, Desire

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• The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Found, Sufism, Sufi Love

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• Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me

  Bayazid Bastami

  Desire, Moses

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• All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's
  Divine Presence.

  Bayazid Bastami

  Path, Divine, Vehicle

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