“When you associate with self-interested fools or schemers their character becomes the essence of your misfortune.” Ora Abel-Russell

“Who is rational? One who seeks to be delivered from the self.” Abu Hafs-e-Haddad

“Nothing darkens the realized, and all darknesses become luminous to them.” Abu Torab

“If I swear that I am a hypocrite, I prefer that to saying I am not.” Fozeyl ebn’Ayaz

“many people go to church, mosque or temple to become more pure but come out more corrupted.” Ora Abel-Russell

“everything we have here is simply on loan till we leave this place.” Ora Abel-Russell

“there’s no apparent reason why many people look at creation, and are blind to the Creator.” Ora Abel-Russell

“there are some things in this world that are not of this world, seek those good things.” Ora Abel-Russell

“If you choose to remain in the lower regions of your Being, try not to ridicule those who are powerfully stirred by a higher path.” Ora Abel-Russell

“look at your self, each and every organ in your body, the existence of mind, the limitless dimensions of the heart, the unequal power of one’s soul, and ask yourself: “Could I have created even one atom in any of these parts?” Ora Abel-Russell

“everything is moving, shifting from one state to another, one feeling to another, confusion to stability, whatever we need to accept what we’re capable of.” Ora Abel-Russell

“love is the water of life” Ora Abel-Russell

“if your heart doesn’t dance at least once a day, and your soul not smile as it looks at itself, ask yourself what has driven God away” Ora Abel-Russell

“if all you see is what your eyes behold, and what you know you think is all you need to know then you can’t tell the truth from a lie.” Ora Abel-Russell

“surrounded by profit and loss we sometimes miss the best of both” Ora Abel-Russell

“when you doubt you cast a shadow on the road ahead. Every decision recharges you to see more clearly what works best.” Ora Abel-Russell

“become a friend, and a friend is never far from you” Ora Abel-Russell

“if you are absorbed in yourself you are submerged in a realm of idols” Ora Abel-Russell

“you can contact almost anyone with the sweetness of your soul” Ora Abel-Russell

“goodwill is the original food for and from our heart” Ora Abel-Russell

“pay attention…every thought is born as action, which passing outward becomes noise or song in someone’s heart and mind.” Ora Abel-Russell

“When you become too familiar with your customs, analyses, and interpretations you repress delights, which spring from new knowledge.” Ora Abel-Russell

“close your eyes! glimpse into the infinite world within you. escape for a brief moment the entanglements of daily movements, of merely walking on this earth.” Ora Abel-Russell

“You who are seeking God! Yourself are He! You need not search! He is ye verily!” Shams-i-Tabriz

“We must keep, very carefully, the light of our faith because enemies are trying to take it away.” Nazim Qibrisi

“Believers need to appear all over the world, in order to put signs of rightness there.” Nazim Qibrisi

“We are power stations. To any person who is asking for that power to reach his destination, we shall give… according to his capability, we give. He may feel it or not; it doesn’t matter.” Nazim Qibrisi

“Everyone must know the value of himself. If a man has no self-respect, gives himself no value, then he will not give another person’s life any value either.” Nazim Qibrisi