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There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.
The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.
My longing for truth was a single prayer.
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God.
Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.
Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.
All lovers live by longing, and endure; summon a vision and declare it pure.
The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
There is a void in your soul,
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
You feel the separation
from the Beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up,
embrace the fire.
ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?
You feel the separation
from the Beloved.
Invite Him to fill you up,
embrace the fire.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
If you don't receive love from the ones who are meant to love you, you will never stop looking for it.