Lucille Clifton Quotes

When the Spirit illuminates the heart, then a part of the man sees which never saw before; a part of him knows which never knew before, and that with a kind of knowing which the most acute thinker cannot imitate.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

Without rain, there would be no life.

Sadness of not knowing enough words to [express what you mean].

The gift of darkness draws you to know God’s presence beyond what thought, imagination, or sensory feeling can comprehend.

The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.

Those who know God know that it is quite a mistake to suppose that there are only five senses.

There's a collective knowing that a dimension of reality exists beyond the material plane, and that sense of knowing is causing a mystical resurgence on the planet today. It's not just children who are looking for a missing piece. It is a very mature outlook to question the nature of our reality.

In the realm of divine consciousness, you can see beyond beliefs, beyond knowing, and beyond not knowing.

To those who study her, Nature reveals herself as extraordinarily fertile and ingenious in devising means, but she has no ends which the human mind has been able to discover or comprehend.

The mystic lives and looks; and speaks the disconcerting language of first-hand experience.

Life will not, it will never, make sense to your mind. The secret is to see life from the soul's perspective; to add to the mind's experience the soul's wisdom, awareness, and total knowing.

Most of us know about God, but that is quite different from knowing God.

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.

Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in many forms - liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail. But no matter the form, it's still water.

Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.

The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

To know another human being in their essence, you don’t really need to know anything about them - their past, their history, their story. We confuse knowing about with a deeper knowing that is non-conceptual. Knowing about and knowing are totally different modalities. One is concerned with form, the other with the formless. One operates through thought, the other through stillness.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry, The builder oak, sole king of forests all, The aspin good for staves, the cypress funeral, The laurel, meed of mighty conquerors And poets sage, the fir that weepest still, The yew obedient to the bender's will, The birch for shafts, the sallow for the mill, The myrrh sweet-bleeding in the bitter wound, The warlike beech, the ash for nothing ill, The fruitful olive, and the platane round, The carver holm, the maple seldom inward sound.

The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.

All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.