Religion....

If we are merely involved in religion through the taking of measurements,
the study of statistics and the rote memorization of scriptures, but have no direct experience of God, then the religion, philosophy and study become our God instead.
God is no longer God; the study about God is God.
Yet, if we never apply ourselves to the task of learning Allah's "ways" through discipline, obedience and study, we will not be ready or able to experience that which is beyond our own limitations.

On the other hand, if we want the direct experience but haven't prepared ourselves with organization and discipline, then we've abandoned our responsibility in the world.
We have deserted the structure that gives us the moral integrity and personal and emotional strength that allows for true experience!

- Sheikh Din Muhammad Abdullah al-Dayemi

Find Out Who You Really Are

One great Saint of our century, Meher Baba, once said,
"Desire for nothing but to be desireless.
Hope for nothing but to be beyond all hope.
Want nothing and you will have everything."
One who is like this no longer has the cycle of suffering in their life,
because they let go of everything that was not who they really are.
This is the crux right here,
let go of the things that are not really you to find out who you really are.

- Sheikh Din Muhammad Abdullah al-Dayemi