The following quotations, drawn from poetry, mysticism, and spiritual philosophy, present a comparative study of mysticism and reveal the universal language of spiritual realization. They express a common vision of the journey from the finite self to Ultimate Reality. In Silentium!, Fyodor Tyutchev teaches that the deepest truths of the soul are beyond words and can only be preserved in silence. Lascelles Abercrombie’s Epitaph suggests that true freedom and perfection arise only through the symbolic death of the ego. The Sutta Nipāta points to liberation through the realization of emptiness and the abandonment of self-centred perception. Shakespeare’s The Phoenix and the Turtle celebrates a perfect union in which duality disappears and love transcends all distinctions. Francis Thompson’s The Mistress of Vision portrays spiritual awakening as the death of the lower self, revealing the hidden unity of all existence. Meister Eckhart teaches that genuine prayer begins when all personal desire ceases, while the Buddha-inspired saying urges us to stop pleading and instead awaken to the Light already surrounding us.
Despite their diverse origins, these voices converge on a universal mystical insight: truth is discovered not through intellectual knowledge or worldly achievement, but through silence, self-emptying, detachment, and direct experience. Their shared message is that the dissolution of the ego unveils an indivisible Reality where wisdom, love, beauty, and freedom become one.
Together, these quotations emphasize that true wisdom lies not in accumulated knowledge or outward achievement but in self-knowledge and inner realization. They urge us to look beyond the ego, intellectual pride, and the illusion of personal agency, discovering the deeper reality of the Self through inward experience and spiritual awakening.

Silentium

Speak not, Be hidden and conceal
The way you dream, the thought you feel,
Deep in the silence, let them rise
Akin to stars in crystal skies-
That set before the night is blurred.
Delight in them and say no word-.

How can a heart expression find?
How should another know your mind?
Will he discern what quickens you?
A thought once uttered is untrue!
Dimmed is the fountain –head when stirred
Drink at the Source and speak no word.

Live stilly in yourself alone.
Within your soul a world has grown,
The magic of veiled thought that might
Be blinded by the outer light-,
Drowned in the noise of day, – unheard
Take in the song- and speak no word!

Epitaph

Sir, you should notice me: I am a man.
I am good fortune : I am satisfied,
All I desired, more than I could desire,
I have : Everything has gone right with me,
Life was a hiding place that played me false.
I crouched ashamed and still was seen and scorned:
But now I am not seen. I was a fool,
And now I know what wisdom dare not know:
For I know nothing. I was a slave and now
I have ungoverned freedom and the wealth
That cannot be conceived: for I have nothing.
I lookt for beauty and I longed for rest,
And now I have perfection: Nay, I am
Perfection: I am nothing, I am dead.
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Where is the life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
“My long sickness of health and living now begins
To mend, and nothing brings me All things”
(Timon of Athens)

Alertly seek the realm or nothingness, and aided by the thought: Naught Is—– thou wilt cross the flood ……….
(S.Nipata)
 
So they loved, as love in twain
Had the essence but in one,
Two distinct, division none,
Number there in love was slain.

Hearts remote, yet not asunder;
Distance and no space was seen
‘Twixt the turtle and his queen;
But in them it was a wonder-.

Property was thus appall’d
That the self was not the same.
Single nature’s double name
Neither two nor one was called.

Reason in itself confounded
Saw division grow together!
To themselves yet either neither
Simply were so well compounded.

Either was the others mine……

Beauty, truth and rarity, grace in all simplicity
Here enclosed in cinders be.

Death is now, the Phoenix nest
And the Turtle’s loyal brest in Eternity doth rest.

Leaving no prosperity: – ‘Twas not their infirmity,
It was married chastity.

Truth may seem but cannot be,
Beauty brags, but ‘tis not she.
Truth and Beauty buried be.
(From Shakespeare’s “The Phoenix and the Turtle”)

“Die, for no other way cans’t live —–
When thy seing blindest thee
To what other mortals see,
When their sight to thee is sightless,
Their living death, their light most lightless
Seek no more-.
When to the new eyes of thee
All things by immortal power,
Near and far, Hiddenly-,
To each other linked are
That thou cans’t not stir or flower
Without troubling a star,
O seek no more …….”
(Francis Thompson)

“When I pray for aught my prayer goes for naught”.
When I pray for nought, I pray as I ought-.
When praying for someone, I pray at my weakest.
When praying for no one, I pray at my strongest
And when I want nothing and make no request,
I am praying at my best!
God is nearer to me than I am to yourself”.
(Meister Eckhart)
 
“Do not complain and cry and pray, but open
Your eyes and see, for the Light is all about
You, and it is so wonderful, so beautiful,
So far beyond anything that man has ever
Dreamt of or prayed for-, and it Is, forever and ever!”
(Siddhartha Gautam Buddha)

‘A man has many skins in himself, covering the depth of his heart. Man knows so many things, he does not know himself. Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, like those of an ox’s or a bear’s, so thick and hard covers his soul go into your own ground, and there experience your Self. Fools regard themselves as awake- and so personal is their knowledge, so cocksure their ignorance, so blinding their conceit of agency. Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority most ignorant of what he is most assured, his glassy essence, like any angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven as make the angels weep-?’ or is it ears? Wu!

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi

https://www.academia.edu/168897744/Simply_to_Be_Ramana_Maharshi_on_the_Self_and_Non_Doership_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_S%C3%B8rensen_Sunyata_Bhai_

Ramana Maharshi stated: “Sometime I stayed with my eyes closed and, when I opened that people said I had come out of my blessed Samadhi, but I never knew the difference between meditation and non-meditation -, blessed or otherwise. I simply lived – a tranquil witness to whatever happens around me. I never felt called upon to interfere actually. I could never feel any urge to be anything except to be. I awared that all and always been done by HIM, by the self alone, though we poor puppets of Maya feel ourselves so (ego) Important as the doer, the action at the reformer of everything.

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi

This is how he describes his death-experience: “As I approached the steps leading up to the entrance into the rock, a strange thing happened: I had the feeling that everything was being sloughed away, everything I aimed at or wished for – or thought. The whole phantasmagoria of earthly existence fell away or was stripped from me, an extremely painful process. Nevertheless something remained. It was as if I now carried along with me everything that had happened around me and within me. I might also say: it was with me and I was it. I consisted of all that, so to speak. I consisted of my own history and I felt with great certainty: This is what I am. I am this bundle of what has been and what has been accomplished. The experience gave me a feeling of extreme poverty, but, at the same time, of great fullness: There was no longer anything I wanted, – needed – .or desired-. I existed in an objective form, I was what I had and had – lived-”.

But their descriptions of their death-experiencing – seem authentic and talley with that of Carl Jung and of Himalayan Jivan Muktis.

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi

Spiritual Awakening: Insights from Carl Jung’s Memoirs -Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/167362162/Spiritual_Awakening_Insights_from_Carl_Jung_s_Memoirs_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_

In his autobiography Carl Jung frequently uses the many-faced word-symbols ‘God’-, as an intimate experience and a Grace that came upon him and influenced his whole, dharmic life-span, and to S-, and also in his “The Undiscovered Self”, he confess, that to him, this Self is a symbol, or arch-type, of what is also called Christ-, i.e. the indwelling, immanent and omnipresent- Em-man-uel, whom we Are, but, as egos, are unaware of Being-.

It is the undiscovered mystery-, the ineffable Grace in mystic awareness. The mature, integral awakening into conscious Self-awareness, is the secret of ananda-grace and is what the erudite theological Meister Eckhart terms “The birth-, or awakening, of Christ in the Heart-cave (Hridaya Guha).

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi

Evil obsessions and possessiveness, however, will exhaust themselves, and if we spit against the Sun, or Sunya, our spittle may well return to our own sweet face. We cannot help the dharmic results of fellow-pilgrims, actions, but we can minimise the evil somehow, by not feeling hurt or hate-full “Judge not – The vengeance is Mine – sayeth the Lord! ”. The Eternal dharma is more “just than are wilful, desire-full and frustrated egos”.

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi

Echoes of Sacred Friendship: Crank’s Ridge, Himalayas -Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)

https://www.academia.edu/165820079/Echoes_of_Sacred_Friendship_Crank_s_Ridge_Himalayas_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_

Radhey Shiam
Bhai Ji

A belated Dipawali greeting and early Yule blessing from your Viking Bhai and Sri Wuji – . Grateful thoughts go to friends at joyous ease in the pure Akasha Ether, while Viking runes are indecipherable to most egojies. Our Betty has kindly and efficiently typed some for you. As Sunya-Love is Prem and Karuna, it is not only personal or ego-oriented but can radiate word-freely, effort freely and ego freely to many and to our Self in All – not very satisfying to egos, but “One man loved the pilgrim soul in you.”

Our herb is now winged Paramhansaji in Poona, and Albert – now Anand Raj has gone there again with is cosmic ocean Viharo, and our Godchild Joy Ji-. Ramana Maharshi pronounced our Sat name “Sunyata” – which is similar to Emmanuel.

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi

Our physical body possesses a wisdom and a ‘saviour’ faire’ which we, who inhabit the bodies, lack: There is no mystery about disease, nor crime-, nor war, nor a thousand and one things which plagues egojs : Live simply and wisely, advises Guru Wuji. Be natural, forget-, forgive-, love your Self and let egojis abdicate. Do I need to study of such simple behaviour? Wu! Life of God Man is -. We are – The full reality that is God and man and the world -, the word made flesh and phenomena – and all that-, is included in the name free, ineffable whole that informs and comprehends all.

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi

Spiritual Echoes: Jesus, Buddha, and World Religions- Alfred Julius Emmanuel Sorensen (Sunya Bhai)
https://www.academia.edu/165296824/Spiritual_Echoes_Jesus_Buddha_and_World_Religions_Alfred_Julius_Emmanuel_Sorensen_Sunya_Bhai_

In our paper, we explore the profound similarities between the teachings of Jesus and Buddha, emphasizing the shared call for ego-crucifixion and the awakening of a deeper life-awareness. We invite you to consider how these spiritual traditions can inspire healing and self-discovery, and we welcome your thoughts and questions on this journey.​

The gospel story bears a striking resemblance to the life and teaching of Gautama Buddha. “The letter killeth” – The rituals and the whitewashed sepulchres of the respectable Pharisees – and the Jewish legalism of outward show – find an echo in the Dhanupada what is the use ochre robe and of matted hair, O fool? What is the use of goat-skin, garment? Within thee there is raving desire of ambition, for attainment, salvation etc. The external facade thou maketh clean – and holy, destroying life, cutting, binding, stealing, speaking lies, fraud and deception, worthless reading and assertive display-, this is defilement-“. When Jeshua Ben Miriam was accused of defilement of the body and of the Sabbath, he seems to have answered: “The Sabbath is made for man and not ‘vice versa’-, and it is more important that cometh out (of the mouth) than what goeth in”, implying that it is ego-mind. Thoughts and speech that defile- more than what we eat- and how we act. Inner-stances master more than circumstances-, rituals and wordiness.

Source from old paper collection of letters (1950s,1960s,1970s) sent by
Alfred Sorensen known as Sunya Bhai to my father Radhey Shiam –
Compiled & Notes by _Rama Kant s/o Lsh Radhey Shiam
– Author of – ‘Song of Life,’The Book of Life’, ‘Quotes of Life’, ‘Nature and I’ and ‘My Soul, My Mother Ganga in English and ‘Haiku Paheliyaan’ in 2 Vol., ‘Haiku Ramayana’, Vedhai Haiku Uttar Ramayana’, ‘Mukri Haiku Paheliyaan’ and ‘Adharma Uvachaa’ in Hindi