Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Quotes (32) Spiritual Sayings
About the Author: Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee (born 1953, London) is a Sufi mystic and lineage successor in the Naqshbandiyya-Mujaddidiyya Sufi Order. He is an extensive lecturer and author of several books about Sufism, mysticism, dreamwork and spirituality. See website for more info - https://workingwithoneness.org/
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“We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
“The wise have inherited wisdom by means of silence and contemplation.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
“The journey towards oneness emphasizes the opposites and we are caught in their conflict.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
“love has no end, because the Beloved has no end.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“Every spiritual path leads the sincere seeker to the truth that can only be found within. The Sufi says that there are as many roads to God as there are human beings, “as many as the breaths of the children of men.” Because we are each individual and unique, the journey of discovering our real nature will be different for each of us. At the same time different spiritual paths are suited to different types of people.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Sufism: The Transformation of the Heart
“Life is an interdependent living organism that reflects the collective consciousness of humanity.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“There is a time to struggle to achieve what we want and a time to give up any desire, a time to be strong and a time to surrender one’s strength.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“Those who wish to enter this path must accept that they can never explain either to themselves or to others the mysterious inner unfolding that is taking them home.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Catching the Thread: Sufism, Dreamwork, and Jungian Psychology
“The ego tries to claim everything for itself, even subverting the soul’s longing for Truth into another illusion.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“Does it feed into my psychological patterns, my defense mechanisms, or does it take me beyond myself, make me more free, maybe more vulnerable, help me to participate more fully?”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“Love is the dominant force, and in its light there is no deception.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“We have separated matter and spirit and through the power of this collective attitude have starved the world.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“The Sufi relates to God not as a judge, nor as a father figure, nor as the creator, but as our own Beloved, who is so close, so near, so tender.
In the states of nearness the lover experiences an intimacy with the Beloved which carries the softness and ecstasy of love.”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Love Is a Fire: The Sufi's Mystical Journey Home
“There are no shadows in which deceptions can be born, no dance of appearances:”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Awakening the World: A Global Dimension to Spiritual Practice
“To be a Sufi is to give up all worries and there is no worse worry than yourself. When you are occupied with self you are separated from God. The way to God is but one step: the step out of yourself.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
“Everything in the world of existence has an end and a goal. The end is maturity and the goal is freedom. For example, fruit grows on the tree until it is ripe and then falls. The ripened fruit represents maturity, and the fallen fruit, freedom.
The final goal is returning to one’s origin. Everything which reaches its origin has reached its goal. A farmer sows grain in the ground and tends it. It begins to grow, eventually seeds, and again becomes grain. It has returned to its original form. The circle is complete. Completing the circle of existence is freedom. (Nasafi)”
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
“I know nothing, I understand nothing, I am unaware of myself. I am in love, but with whom I do not know. My heart is at the same time both full and empty of love.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Travelling the Path of Love: Sayings of Sufi Masters
Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten — it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We think that the problems of the world and of ourselves can only be solved through "doing," not realizing that it is this focus on ceaseless activity that has created much of our present imbalance. Rather than always asking, "What should I do?," we can learn to reflect, "How should I be?
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We have in us a divine spark that you can see. It's a Light that shines in the human being. It's our direct access to truth, our direct access to God. The purpose of all the spiritual practices that exist are to awaken that sparkto give it life, to give it energy, so that it can transform you. One of the energies that comes from that spark is Love.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed...
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We cannot afford the still-birth of new ideas that lack the life force that comes from the depths. We are called to return to the root of our being where the sacred is born. Then, standing in both the inner and outer worlds, we will find our self to be part of the momentous synchronicity of life giving birth to itself.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
It is the heart that sees the primordial eternity of every creature.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people. . . .The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed, the opportunity that is offered. How we make use of this opportunity depends upon the degree of our participation, how much we are prepared to give ourselves to the work that needs to be done, to the freedom that needs to be lived.
― Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
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