CURATED COLLECTION

The Search for the Divine

Humans have always sensed that there is something more — and spent their whole lives trying to name it.

50 quotes found

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

—Jorge Luis BorgesWriter & Essayist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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I have sung your praise, O Lord, with my voice and with my soul.

—AndalPoet

Medieval ERA • South Asia

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I have oppressed my soul with sins, but your intercession is my hope.

—Al-BusiriPoet & Prophet

Medieval ERA • North Africa

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Let your soul yearn for the divine, like a thirsty traveler yearns for water.

—Aisha al-BaunniyyaPoet, Scholar & Author

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Come, let us raise our hands in prayer, for we too have forgotten the art of love.

—Faiz Ahmad FaizScholar & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • South Asia

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My soul is like a river, flowing towards the ocean of divine love.

—Bahinabai ChaudhariPoet

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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In His love, I am lost and found. My existence is but a whisper in His vastness.

—Aisha al-BaunniyyaPoet, Scholar & Author

Medieval ERA • MENA

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I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.

—HafizLyric Poet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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The whole world is looking for love, and it's looking for a way to express it.

—Sade AduScholar & Thinker

Late Modern ERA • West Africa

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I have walked on the shore that I know. I shall return.

—Kofi AwoonorPoet, Novelist & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Love is the wine of existence; whoever has known it deeply has drunk divinity.

—Delmira AgustiniPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Latin America

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Love is a secret flame that burns in the heart, yet its smoke reaches heavens.

—FuzuliPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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A human being is never complete until the moment of death.

—Tierno BokarMystic, Scholar & Sage

Early Modern ERA • West Africa

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Love is bitter, but those who have tasted it find all else bland.

—Mihri HatunPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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I am the mirror of your face; look at me if you wish to see yourself.

—Bibi HayatiPoet

Industrial Age ERA • MENA

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My heart is fixed upon you, O Lord, like an arrow aimed at its target.

—AndalPoet

Medieval ERA • South Asia

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Only when you lose yourself completely, do you begin to find your true Self.

—JamiPoet & Scholar

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Love is a fire that burns away all but God. The true lover sees only the Beloved.

—Nizami GanjaviEpic Poet

Medieval ERA • Central Asia

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Love set me on fire and I was glad to burn.

—Zeynep HatunPoet

Renaissance ERA • MENA

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I have fallen in love with the ocean of existence.

—MirabaiPoet

Renaissance ERA • South Asia

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