The Sufi message is a reminder to humanity, not to any one nation but to all; not…
Variations on a Theme: Volume III
Thy Dazzling Presence
Introduction
To grasp the Ultimate, experience must be intimate.
Rev. Joe Miller
What is more intimate than finding the Ultimate inside your most inside part? The sayings in this third volume of Variations on a Theme describe a relationship, not with the Transcendent Absolute, beyond the beyond, but rather an interaction with Immanent Being, within the within.
Taj Inayat has said, “Although the Divine Presence is a reality in the depth of everyone, unless we open ourselves to its action, it remains dormant.” Contemplation and assimilation of any one of these sayings can be the catalyst for transforming potentiality into actuality.
The non-dual practitioner may not immediately be in sync with a practice that begins in a duality: “I and Thou.” However, spirital practice is a process, a journey from one end of a line to the other. The practice of the Presence of God progresses from “I and Thou,” to “I am not, Thou art,” and then to “I am Thou, Thou art me,” and then to simply “I am.”
In truth, there can be no journey to God because near and far have no meaning in Unity. Can we say that the wave is far from the ocean? Nonetheless, the “joy is in the journey” and God created duality out of love–and for the chance of union.
Habibullah Rogers
Petaluma, 2021
You are above me.
You are beneath me.
You are before me.
You are behind me.
You are right of me.
You are left of me.
You are within me.
I am within you.
Shaykh Kalimullah
You! The All-in-All, within, behind, beyond.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
This is all the manifestation of God, and my person is a part of that manifestation, my body, my mind, my personality, but beyond the manifestation is the Presence.
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan
Through my every part, I know You.
Mansur al-Hallaj
Every part of the Prophet Jesus loved every other part. Sufi saying of unknown origin
Every part of me is touching You.
Anonymous Sufi
Let me feel Your arms around me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
God is nearer to us than our mind and our body. Hazrat Inayat Khan
God is closer than your own breath.
Ibn Arabi
God is nearer to you than your self or all the things that have happened to you.
Jalaluddin Rumi
God is nearer to you than what you remember, what you fear, and what you know.
Anonymous Sufi
Do not speak of Me as if I were not present.
Anonymous Sufi
Thy life is my breath.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
My body is a cover over Thy soul.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
If I am here, You must be here.
Anonymous Sufi
Thou art my spirit, I am Thy body.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
You are in me and in You do I live.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
To the jinn world is one step; to the angel world is two steps; but to God there is no journey: He is there.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Why do you look for God up there? God is here! Here! Abdul Jabbar Niffari
What we are looking for is already here.
Taj Inayat
If God is not here, God is nowhere.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
There is nowhere to go, nothing to do.
Taj Inayat
My heart and Your heart occupy the same space. Anonymous Sufi
Always I am in Thy dazzling presence, my Beloved. Hazrat Inayat Khan
Thou art closer to me than my self.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Let my self turn into Thy Being.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Thou, not I.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
God is beneath all, beyond all, within all, and without all things, covering all, surrounding all that is in heaven and on earth. God is the sum total of all that exists and which is knowable and also of the existence which is beyond human knowledge. God is the
source of all, the beginning of all, the end of all, all pervading, omnipotent, omnipresent, everlasting, the Only Being. Hazrat Inayat Khan
When I have become You and You have become me, when I have become body and You have become soul, then, Beloved, there is no difference between You and I.
Amir Khusrau
I drink the wine of Thy divine presence and lose myself in its intoxication.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
I am Thou.
Thou art me.
I am what I am.
Hazrat Inayat Khan