There are many people who fast, whose fast is nothing but hunger and thirst. There are those whose prayer is no better than wakefulness and hardship. The eating and drinking in case of the former and sleeping in the latter’s case is a far better option.
God is everywhere but He is most manifest in man. So serve man as God. That is as good as worshipping God.
Make haste in doing good; check your mind from evil; for the mind of him who is slow in doing meritorious actions delights in evil.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn, out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
When a man honours his father and mother, God says, “I regard it as though I had dwelt among them and they had honoured me."

