Quotes About Devotion

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere.

I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in. Very quick. Very intense.

she took hold of herself, knowing she owed Jesus a life

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

And telling you I care about you is a waste of time. I wouldn't have crossed the ocean, come out of hiding, tracked you down, if you didn't matter to me.

I want your innocence. I want your blind, unquestioning devotion to your father, your acceptance of who and what he is. I want you to look at me the way you look at him, knowing the worst. I want you to trust me, even when your brain tells you you shouldn't, I want you to ignore common sense and your lifelong need to protect yourself. I want you to give yourself to me, body and soul.

There'll be no keeping Chickie from dancing, or dancing from Chickie. It will feed her and gnaw away at her, and in the end it will pull her away. For once a child has an obsession, she no longer has need of a mother

Les plus fous d'entre eux s'aimèrent. Bô et Hama furent de ceux-là.

Die Werke sind starre Formen; beseelt werden sie, wenn sich das Geheimnis der ?aufrichtigen Hingabe in ihnen findet.? Worte der Weisheit HIKAM ? von Ibn Ata'Allah al-Iskandari

Åžems'in dönüÅŸünden sonra Mevlânâ'yla kar??laÅŸmas?na iliÅŸkin bir tasvire sahibiz: 'KucaklaÅŸt?lar birbirlerine secdeler ettiler, öyle ki kim â??kt?r, kim mâÅŸuk anla??lmad?.

The metaphors that Sumnun the Lover used to express the ineffable experience of this love, of which he was only a fragile vessel, are not taken from the vocabulary of worldly love. Rather, they are perfectly chaste, lucid, almost immaterial: "I have separated my heart from this world— My heart and Thou are not separate. And when slumber closes my eyes, I find Thee between the eye and the lid." (A 10:310)

In the end, one can only die for Sibylle. To love for her, my friends say, is degrading.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

It was scary to need another person as much as you needed your next breath. It implied a need for unlimited faith and trust. You had to believe your love would be there for you always.

Why me?" she asked, holding on to him. "Because you cared," he whispered. "You cared so much for your people, it broke your heart to see the pack in ruins. You cared so much for your mother, you risked your life for hers. You cared enough to save someone who wanted you dead. And because you walk like a queen.

I want to lay my kill at your feet.

I learned...that loyalty does not mean stepping into line but falling out of it for the people we love.

But not devotion alone marks this great One who is climbing his divine path. He must also be, as I´shvara is, a lover of humanity. Unless within him there burns the flame of love for men—nay, men, do I say? it is too narrow—unless within him burns the flame of love for everything that exists, moving and unmoving, in this universe

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you.

The dedicated life is the life worth living. You must give with your whole heart.

As I bend forward to check the safety catch of my mother's wheelchair, she leans over and kisses my hair. How can I survive that kiss, such love, my mother, my mother.

Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives even without constant attention.

When [he] kisses you he isn't doing anything else. You're his whole universe..and the moment is eternal because he doesn't have any plans and isn't going anywhere. Just kissing you...it's overwhelming.