Top 35 Mikhail Naimy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love everything, you are attached to nothing.”

— Mikhail Naimy

2. “Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.”

— Mikhail Naimy

3. “Whoever cannot find a temple in his heart, the same can never find his heart in any temple.”

— Mikhail Naimy

4. “So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is.”

— Mikhail Naimy

5. “When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It’s very taking is giving.”

— Mikhail Naimy

6. “Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.”

— Mikhail Naimy

7. “Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled.”

— Mikhail Naimy

8. “Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.”

— Mikhail Naimy

9. “Aye, fight! But not your neighbor. Fight rather all the things that cause you and your neighbor to fight.”

— Mikhail Naimy

10. “Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.”

— Mikhail Naimy

11. “As you die continually when living. So do you live continually when dead; if not in this body, then in a body of another form...”

— Mikhail Naimy

12. “To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other’s pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !”

— Mikhail Naimy

13. “Less possessing – less possessed. More possessing – more possessed. More possessed – less assessed. Less possessed – more assessed.”

— Mikhail Naimy

14. “It is my light that sees me in your eye. It is your light that sees you in my eye. Were I a total darkness your eye, looking at me, would be a total darkness.”

— Mikhail Naimy

15. “The more elaborate his labyrinths, the further from the Sun his face.”

— Mikhail Naimy

16. “How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.”

— Mikhail Naimy

17. “No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.”

— Mikhail Naimy

18. “How easy it is to mock, how hard it is to understand! Yet mockery has ever mocked the mocker.”

— Mikhail Naimy

19. “If then, your world be such a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle. And if your speech be such a woeful maze, it is because you are that woeful maze.”

— Mikhail Naimy

20. “Your breath upon the wind shall surely lodge within some breast. Ask not whose breast it is. See only that the breath itself be pure.”

— Mikhail Naimy

21. “Vast is the difference between ‘holding’ and ‘being held’. You hold, only what you love. What you hate holds you. Avoid being held.”

— Mikhail Naimy

22. “He who did not taste Freedom on Earth, will not know it in Heaven!”

— Mikhail Naimy

23. “To the unspoiled, even a snikebite is a loving kiss. But to the spoiled even a loving kiss is a snake bite.”

— Mikhail Naimy

24. “Go! Pray as you have been taught to pray. Pray anyway – for anything. Go! Do all the things commanded you to do till you become self-taught and self-commanded, and till you learn to make each word a prayer, each deed a sacrifice. Go in peace. Mirdad must see that your morning meal be plentiful and sweet.”

— Mikhail Naimy

25. “Creep where you cannot walk. Walk where you cannot run. Run where you cannot fly. Fly where you cannot bring the whole universe to a standstill within you.”

— Mikhail Naimy

26. “The really poor is he who misuses what he has. The really rich is he who well uses what he has.”

— Mikhail Naimy

27. “Yours is a world of cradles turning into tombs, and tombs becoming cradles; of days devouring nights, and nights regurgitating days; of peace declaring war, and war suing for peace; of smiles afloat on tears, and tears aglow with smiles.”

— Mikhail Naimy

28. “Be steady. Make ready. Keep your eyes, and ears, and tongues on fast so that your hearts may know that holy hunger which, once appeased, leaves you forever full. You.”

— Mikhail Naimy

29. “Love neither lends nor borrows; Love neither buys nor sells; but when it gives, it gives it s all; and when it takes, it takes its all. Its very taking is a giving. Its very giving is a taking. Therefore is it the same to-day, to-morrow and forevermore.”

— Mikhail Naimy

30. “For Man is held by everything he holds. Release your grip on things if you would not be in their grip.”

— Mikhail Naimy

31. “Once Understanding is unveiled, then victory is won and Peace established in the heart for ever and anon. An understanding heart is ever at peace even amid a war-dazed world. An ignorant heart is a dual heart. A dual heart makes for a dual world. A dual world breeds constant strife and war. Whereas an understanding heart is a single heart. A single heart makes for a single world. A single world is a world at peace. For it takes two to make a war.”

— Mikhail Naimy

32. “God is not many. God is one. But many and divers are yet men’s shadows. So long as men cast shadows on the earth, so long as each man’s god no greater than hi shadow. The shadow-less only are all in the light. The shadow-less only know one god. For god is Light, and Light alone is able to know Light.”

— Mikhail Naimy

33. “Look not into a passion’s mouth to see if it have fangs or honeyed mandibles. The bee that gathers up the nectar of the flowerers gathers their poison, too.”

— Mikhail Naimy

34. “Naimy writes, ‘As a living branch of a living vine, when buried in the ground, strikes root and ultimately becomes an independent grape-bearing vine like its mother with which it remains connected, so shall Man, the living branch of the Vine Divine, when buried in the soil of its divinity, become a God, remaining permanently one with God.”

— Mikhail Naimy

35. “A perfect unit is the Earth. Why do you persist in disremembering her with swords and boundary marks?”

— Mikhail Naimy

36. “No hells or heavens has Mirdad to offer you, but Holy Understanding which lifts you far beyond the fire of any hell and the luxuriance of any heaven. Not with the hand, but with the heart must you receive the gift. For that the heart must needs be disencumbered of every stray desire and will, save the desire and will to understand.”

— Mikhail Naimy

37. “Let things alone and labour not to change them. For they seem what they seem only because you seem what you seem. They neither see nor speak except you lend them sight and speech. If they be harsh of speech, look only to your tongue. If they be ugly of appearance, search first and last your eye. Ask not of things to shed their veils. Unveil yourselves, and things will be unveiled. Nor ask of things to break their seals. Unseal your selves, and all will be unsealed.”

— Mikhail Naimy

38. “You must not impose yourselves on any man. For that which is imposed by force is soon or late deposed by force.”

— Mikhail Naimy

39. “Man, too, therefore, is such an holy triune; a consciousness, a word, an understanding. Man, too, is a creator like his God. His I is his creation. Why is he not so balanced as his God?”

— Mikhail Naimy