b) 'I and my Father are One.'
Jesus (John 10:30)
c) 'Forgetful of myself,
My head reclined on my Beloved,
The world was gone
And all my cares at rest,
Forgotten all my grief among the lilies.'
from: The Dark Night of the Soul by Saint John of the Cross.
d) A fragment from one of Kabir's poems describes that state:
'There is a land where no doubt nor sorrow have rule:
Where the Terror of Death is no more.
There the woods of spring are a-bloom,
And the fragrant scent 'He is I' is borne on the wind.
There the bee of the heart is deeply immersed,
And desires no other joy.'
Kabir, Songs of Kabir, translated by R. Tagore, 1917 edition.
(Cosmo Pub, 24-B, Ansari Rd., New Delhi 110002, 1985).
e) '[Union with God] is an unwalled world.'
Ruysbroeck
f) 'You never enjoy the world aright until the Sea itself
floweth in your veins.'
Thomas Treherne, 1637-1674
g) 'When a man feels the rhythmic throb of the soul life of
the whole world in his own soul, then he is free.'
Rabindranath Tagore, Sadana: The Realization of Life
(Macmillan Co., New York,1914),113.
h) 'The rose is without why, it blooms because it blooms,
It pays no attention to itself, asks not whether it is seen.'
Angelus Silesius
i) '.... man can transcend the subject - object dichotomy and
achieve a total union of subject and object, in which all objectness
vanishes and the I is extinguished. Then authentic being opens up to us,
leaving behind it as we awaken from our trance a consciousness of
profound and inexhaustible meaning.'
Karl Jaspers, Way to Wisdom(Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 1954)pp33-34.