Sunday, November 6, 2011

Thought for the Day

This thing we tell of can never be found
by seeking, yet only seekers find it.*
~ Abu Yazid al-Bistami**

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* Quoted in Larry Chang, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing (Gnosophia Publishers, 2006); on GoogleBooks

** Also known as Bayazid al-Bistami (Bastami means "from the city of Bastam", which is in Iran.)

Abu Yazid al-Bistami, 804-874 CE, Sufi Mystic, Important Early Teacher of Sufi Islam, and Poet

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 6, 2011 at 2:25 PM

    ah...so...seekers find it when they are not seeking.

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  2. AnonymousNovember 6, 2011 at 2:27 PM

    or

    it is given to seekers when they are doing something besides seeking.

    kind of the same, but with a tiny twist.

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