When I considered world to be my enemy and I went to God, His love possessed me to such an extent that I became enemy of myself.

When I considered world to be my enemy and I went to God, His love possessed me to such an extent that I became enemy of myself.

i triply divorced the world and alone proceeded to the Alone. I stood before the Presence and cried; “Lord God! I desire not but Thee. If I possess Thee, I possess all’... when God recognized my sincerity, the first grace that he accorded me was that He removed chaff of the self before me.”

i triply divorced the world and alone proceeded to the Alone. I stood before the Presence and cried; “Lord God! I desire not but Thee. If I possess Thee, I possess all’... when God recognized my sincerity, the first grace that he accorded me was that He removed chaff of the self before me.”

Someone asked: “By what means did you attain this gnosis?” He replied: “By a hungry stomach and a naked body.”

Someone asked: “By what means did you attain this gnosis?” He replied: “By a hungry stomach and a naked body.”

The saints of God are His brides, and none looks upon brides save those of their family. They are veiled in seclusion in His presence by intimacy. No one sees them, neither in the world nor the next.

The saints of God are His brides, and none looks upon brides save those of their family. They are veiled in seclusion in His presence by intimacy. No one sees them, neither in the world nor the next.

When God loves a man, He endows him with three qualities in token thereof: a bounty like that of the sea, a sympathy Jike that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth. No suffering can be too great, no devotion too high, for the piercing insight and burning faith of true lover.

When God loves a man, He endows him with three qualities in token thereof: a bounty like that of the sea, a sympathy Jike that of the sun, and a humility like that of the earth. No suffering can be too great, no devotion too high, for the piercing insight and burning faith of true lover.