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

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.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

For thirty years I sought God. But when I looked carefully I found that in reality God was the seeker and I the sought.

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.

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

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