Meister Eckhart
A man has many skins in himself, covering the depths of his heart. Man knows so many things; he does not know himself. Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, just like an ox's or a bear's, so thick and hard, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself.
From 'The Bhagavad Gita':
... the beginningless Brahman, ... can be called neither being nor nonbeing. It is both near and far, both within and without every creature; it moves and is unmoving. In its subtlety it is beyond comprehension. It is indivisible, yet appears divided in separate creatures. Know it to be the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer. Dwelling in every heart, it is beyond darkness. It is called the light of lights, the object and goal of knowledge, and knowledge itself.
Ibn 'Arabi
When you know yourself, your "I-ness" vanishes and you know that you and God are one and the same.
Ibn El-ArabiFrom 'The Way of the Sufi' Idries Shah
Now I am called the shepherd of the desert gazelles, Now a Christian monk, Now a Zoroastrian. The Beloved is Three, yet One : Just as the three are in reality one.
Bhagavad Gita 18.55
To love is to know Me, My innermost nature, The truth that I am.
Alan Watts
This then, is the human problem; there is a price to be paid for every increase in consciousness. We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Sri Chinmoy
Peace does not mean the absence of war. Peace means the presence of harmony, love, satisfaction and oneness."
RumiJewels of Remembrance Camille and Kabir Helminski
All this dying is not the death of the physical form: this body is only an instrument for the spirit. There is many a martyred soul that has died to self in this world, though it goes about like the living. The animal self has died, though the body, which is its sword, survives: the sword is still in the hand of that eager warrior. The sword is the same sword; the person is not the same person, but this appearance of identity bewilders you.
Morehei Ueshiba
You and I and everything in the universe exist as a part of the endless flow of God's Love. Realizing this, we recognize that all creation is bound together with the same benevolence. To harmonize with life is to come into accord with that part of God which flows through all things. To foster and protect all life is both our mission and our prayer.