Tis all a checkerboard of nights and days
Where destiny with men for pieces plays.
Hither and thither moves and mates and slays
And one by one back in the closet lays.
— Omar Khayyam

Reason says, "I will beguile him with the tongue;"
Love says, "Be silent. I will beguile him with the soul."
The soul says to the heart, "Go, do not laugh at me and yourself.
What is there that is not his, that I may beguile him thereby?"
— Rumi

Lamps burn in every house, O blind one! and you cannot see them.
One day your eyes shall suddenly be opened, and you shall see:
and the fetters of death will fall from you.
— Kabir

His disciples said to him, "When will the kingdom come?"
Jesus∞ said, "It will not come by waiting for it. It will not be a matter
of saying 'here it is' or 'there it is.' Rather, the kingdom of the father
is spread out upon the earth, and men do not see it."
— Gospel of Thomas∞ Saying 113