If you thus reject everything, what remains is the Self alone.... That is real love.... One who knows the secret of that love finds the world itself full of universal love. Ramana Maharshi

She is Divine Wisdom.  She watches over all people and all things in heaven and on earth, being of such radiance and brightness that, for the measureless splendor that shines in Her, you cannot gaze on Her face or on the garments She wears.  For She is awesome in terror as the Thunderer's lightening, and... (read more)

“And I have declared unto them Thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith Thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. And the glory which Thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and Thou in me,... (read more)

With the Beloved's water of life, no illness remains. In the Beloved's rose garden of union, no thorn remains. They say there is a window from one heart to another, How can there be a window where no wall remains?   From Thief of Sleep by Shahram Shiva

To Love is to be God. Never will a Lover's chest feel any sorrow. Never will a Lover's robe be touched by mortals. Never will a Lover's body be found buried in the earth. To Love is to be God.   Rumi Odes & Quatrains by Shahram Shiva

You think you are alive because you breathe air? Shame on you, that you are alive in such a limited way. Don't be without Love, so you won't feel dead. Die in Love and stay alive forever.   Rumi Odes & Quatrains by Shahram Shiva

All that you are attached to, all that you love, all that you know, someday will be gone. Knowing this, and that the world is your mind which you create, play in, and suffer from, is known as discrimination. Discriminate between the Real and the Unreal, the known is unreal and will come and go…. (read more)

“There is no mortality. It is only the Immortal who can die; the mortal could neither be born nor perish. There is nothing finite. It is only the Infinite who can make for Himself limits; the finite can have no beginning nor end, for the very act of conceiving its beginning and end declares its… (read more)

“Knock, And He’ll open the door  Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun  Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens  Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.” Rumi

 Jesus Speaks on His Physical Resurrection My body disappeared because I had no illusion about it. The last one had gone. It was laid in the tomb, but there was nothing left to bury. It did not disintegrate because the unreal cannot die. It merely became what it always was. And that is what “rolling… (read more)