Spiritual Quotes

Rabia al-Basri (713 - 801) was a Sufi mystic saint, who's widely recognized as being the most influential and notable female Sufi mystic in Islamic history. She did not leave any written work of her own, as most of the sources of the quotes and stories attributed to...

Duncan Trussell is an American comedian, actor and philosopher. He is best known as a standup comedian, but has recently amassed a loyal following on his podcast The Duncan Trussell Family Hour and on Joe Rogan's podcast. He is known for his humour and wisdom on the...

Non-duality is about experiencing reality as it is, one undivided whole. Duality pertains to the mind while reality transcends the mind. Duality is a way of perceiving, and not the actuality of the whole. The truth of the whole is neither one nor two. It is simply...

Bulleh Shah (1680-1757) was a Punjabi Sufi mystic poet, humanist and philosopher who lived during the Mughal Empire and era. He is best known for his devotional sufi poems dedicated to the Beloved. Seek the spirit, forget the form. Bulleh Shah Enough is enough, talk...

Walter Hilton was a English mystic in the 14th century. He is best known for his work "The Ladder of Perfection" and for being one of the first to write mystic theology in the English language. Walter Hilton was born in either 1340 or 1345, and seems to have studied...

The day is November 22, 1963, and Aldous Huxley is lying on his deathbed, in the last terminal stages of a metastatic laryngeal cancer, unable to speak he then suddenly hints at his wife Laura to fetch him a piece of paper. On it he wrote: LSD - try it intermuscular....

Hildegard of Bingen was a prominent German Christian mystic, polymath and abbess during the Middle Ages. She is also known as Saint Hildegard and is known for her visionary theology and her subsequent great influence on Christianity. Born in 1098 in Bingen, a city...

Saadi Shirazi was a highly influential Persian poet and writer who lived in the 13th century. He is best known today for his works 'Gulistan', 'Bustan' and for his extensive love poetry (ghazals). Together with Rumi and Hafez, he is considered one of the three...

Derived from the thoughts of Plato, neoplatonism was a philosophical tradition that took its distinct form in Egypt through the thoughts of the 3rd century Alexandrian philosopher Ammonius Saccas, but reached its climax in the works of his student Plotinus, who was...

Our societies here in the western world have done a excellent job of distancing its citizens from the topic of death. Anything related to death and dying has kinda been hidden from the view of the public, where talking about it is almost taboo. In some ways this is...