All this talk and turmoil and ...

All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
All this talk and turmoil and noise and movement and desire is outside of the veil; within the veil is silence and calm and rest.
 Bayazid Bastami

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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Quotes from the same author

I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer.
 Bayazid Bastami