The Prayer of the Optina Elders

Grant unto me, O Lord, that with peace of mind I may face all that this new day is to bring. Grant unto me to dedicate myself completely to Thy Holy Will. [More]

Embrace Your Destiny!

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it in another. [More]

The Four Stages of Belief
Belief is like a staircase; it is made in order to go upward, but if one remains standing on one step then there is no progress. One belief after another comes to a person as he goes further on the path of spiritual progress, each one greater or higher than the last, and therefore the wise, the illuminated ones, go from one belief to another until they reach the ultimate belief. [More]

About the Secret

Would you that spangle of Existence spend
About THE SECRET--quick about it, Friend!
  A Hair, they say, divides the False and True--
And upon what, prithee, does Life depend? [More]

The Source of All Things

The One is all things and no one of them; the source of all things is not all things; all things are its possession-- running back, so to speak, to it --or, more correctly, not yet so, they will be. [More]

The Soul: Whence and Whither?

BEFORE Manifestation what existed? Zat, the Truly Existing, the Only Being. In what form? In no form. As what? As nothing. The only definition that word can give is as the Absolute. In the Sufi terms this existence is termed AHADIAT. [More]