Bayazid Bastami

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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
Collection: God
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I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.
- Bayazid Bastami
Collection: Silence
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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
Collection: Silence
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Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.
- Bayazid Bastami
Collection: Self
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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
Collection: Choices
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The thing we tell of can never be found be seeking, yet only seekers find it.
- Bayazid Bastami
Collection: Found
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Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me
- Bayazid Bastami
Collection: Desire