Great Throughts Treasury

"Praise Allah, and tie your camel to the post."

"When the heart weeps for what it has lost, the spirit laughs for what it has found."

"Faith is verification by the heart; confession by the tongue; action by the limbs."

"Abundance can be had simply by knowingly receiving what has already been given."

"Behind every adversity lies a hidden possibility."

"A person who seeks God through logical proof is like someone who searches for the sun with a lamp."

"Asking good questions is half of learning"

"If the senses were eliminated the world would appear as a unity."

"If you pick up a bee due to kindness, you will learn the limitations of kindness."

"Knowledge without its application is like water without wetness."

"Never be enslaved to principles."

"So preserve yourselves, my brothers, from the calamities of this place, for distinguishing it is extremely difficult! Souls find it sweet, and then within it they are duped, since they become completely enamored of it."

"Bringing joy to one heart with love is better than one thousand repetitive prayer recitings."

"Everyone knows that the drop merges into the ocean. Few people realize that the ocean also merges into the drop."

"Grasp the moment; you can’t power a mill with water that has already passed by."

"I searched for God, and found only myself. I searched for myself, and found only God."

"The treasure of joy is closer to you than you are to yourself—so why should you go searching from door to door?"

"There are as many paths to god as there are souls on earth."

"There is a difference between spending a night with a lover and a night with a toothache."

"There would be no such a thing as counterfeit gold if there weren’t real gold somewhere."

"Those that have time and search for a better time will lose time."

"Those who have free seats at a play hiss first."

"Watching someone else eating will not satisfy you hunger; the spiritual experiences of others will not satisfy your yearning."

"We are in this world, but not of it."

"We do not walk on our legs, but on our will."

"The cosmos is a great man, and man is a little cosmos."

"We don't kill a pig every day."

"When a pickpocket sees a saint, all he sees are his pockets."

"Wise company can also make you wise."

"A bad deed leaves a bad taste."

"A bad wedding arrangement."

"A basket in water."

"A blind man's wife is God's keeping."

"A baseless matter which does not last for long."

"A blind man is no judge of colors."

"A child who doesn't grow."

"A child without a grandmother is like paddy without water."

"A confused person. One who doesn't know what is good for him."

"A crow learnt to walk like a partridge and forgot its own style of walking."

"A crow was washed with soap several times, but its own black colour did not go."

"A crows wedding party."

"A donkey with a load of holy books is still a donkey."

"A blind person doesn't know what the white rice looks like."

"A bungalow (is constructed) upon an inch of ground."

"A boat adrift."

"A drowning man asks for pears from the willow tree."

"A fake saint. A quack."

"A flood over one's head."

"A gang of thieves in the garb of saints."

"A great loss, but many to share it."