Bayazid Bastami Quotes

I stood with the pious and I didn’t find any progress with them. I stood with the warriors in the cause and I didn’t find a single step of progress with them. Then I said, ‘O Allah, what is the way to You?’ and Allah said, ‘Leave yourself and come.

I never saw any lamp shining more brightly than the lamp of silence.

I went to a wilderness, love had rained and had covered earth, as feet penetrate snow, I found my feet covered with love.

Bayazid Bastami said, ‘That for which we long cannot be found by seeking, and yet only seekers find it’.