Hindu and Muslim Wisdom

[Pravin Kumar]

As for those who seek the transcendental Reality, without name, without form, contemplating the Unmanifested, beyond the reach of thought and of feeling, with their senses subdued and mind serene and striving for the good of all beings, they too will verily come unto me.

- Bhagavad Gita

Fear is a state of darkness in which the soul wanders, bewildered, seeking help, and then comes hope as a ray of light, and grace prevails.

- Al-Sarraj, "Rabi'a the Mystic"


Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.

- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, 2:5


A person once asked the Prophet Muhammad to pray for him. So the Prophet implored, "O Allah, kindle within his heart the light of faith, and afford him with the courage to avert earthly wiles and submit himself before Your will." When a person turns away from the world, he adheres to God, and God lavishes incredible bounty on him.

- Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jillani, "Fayuz E Yazdani"


The best proof of love is trust.

- Joyce Brothers

The heart that truly loves never forgets.

- Proverb

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

- Henry Ford