Quotes by Al Ghazali

Are you ready to cut off your head and place your foot on it? If so, come; Love awaits you! Love is not grown in a garden, nor sold in the marketplace; whether you are a king or a servant, the price is your head, and nothing less. Yes, the cost of the elixir of love is your head! Do you hesitate? 0 miser, It is cheap at that price!

Brahman is the only Reality, ever pure, ever illumined, ever free, beyond the limits of time, space, and causation. Though apparently divided by names and forms through the inscrutable power of maya, that enchantress who makes the impossible possible, Brahman is really One and undivided.

He who first through the mind filled the blessed spaces with light, He it is who by his will created Righteousness, Whereby he upholds the Best Mind. This thou hast increased, 0 Wise One, by the Spirit Which is even now one with thee, 0 Lord!

In God, there is no sorrow or suffering or affliction. If you want to be free of all affliction and suffering, hold fast to God, and turn wholly to Him, and to no one else. Indeed, all your suffering comes from this: that you do not turn toward God and no one else.

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

When I think of the Supreme Being as inactive neither creating nor preserving nor destroying-I call Him Brahman or Purusha, the Impersonal God. When I think of Him as active-creating, preserving, destroying-I call Him Shakti or Maya or Prakriti, the Personal God. But the distinction between them does not mean a difference.