Richard Selzer Quotes

Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent.

Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name.

Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with God.

You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call.

Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.

The soul... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Heaven means to be one with God.

As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

I see a sense of unity in the universe. Spirituality is not limited to only one religion. One can experience it across different religions. I am fascinated by philosophy of Advaita and philosophy of unity. We have to get over the illusion that God is different from us.

When I was in my mid-20s, I traveled a lot around the world, and the question I had for everyone I talked to was, 'What is your conception of God?' I found that everybody basically felt the same: God is within and without. He's in everything.

Faith is not a thing which one 'loses', we merely cease to shape our lives by it.

You are within God. God is within you.

Each and every master, regardless of the era or the place, heard the call and attained harmony with heaven and earth. There are many paths leading to the top of Mount Fuji, but there is only one summit - love.

The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

My joy in my life comes from my strength in my life and in my experience with God. That cannot be separated from football. It is all the same to me. It is one. I am one with it.

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.

Forget yourself. Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment.

I think the membrane - I say that the membrane between life and death is perilously thin. And I do think the story of Jesus, this great mythical story, can have transforming value in our lives.

What a miracle life is and how alike are all souls when they send their roots down deep and meet and are one!

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.