Tom Wolfe

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

I prayed for your peace even if you started this whole war in me.

Be the witness of your thoughts. You are what observes, not what you observe.

The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending time and space?

What was never lost can never be found.

It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

When you hear that all beings are Buddha, don’t fall into the error of thinking there’s more than one Buddha.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.

To follow the path, look to the master, follow the master, walk with the master, see through the master, become the master.