Raise the stone & there YOU shall find

Me. Cleave the wood & there AM I.

- Jesus in Gospel according to
Thomas.

The omnipresent, omniscient &

omnipotent nature of the I AM Principle
is emphasized in this quote.
It is enough that One surrenders Oneself.
Surrender is to give oneself up to The Original
Cause of Being. Do not delude YOURSELF by
imagining such Source to be some God outside
YOU. One’s source is within oneself. Give
YOURSELF up to it. It means that YOU should
seek The Source & merge in It.
- Sri Ramana Maharishi
The surrender of your ego to the I AM Principle,
The Source within YOURSELF & merging into It,
is emphasized in this quote.
Each thing has two faces, a face of its own & the
Face of its Lord; in respect of its own face, it is
nothingness & in respect of The Face of God, it is
Being. Thus there is nothing in existence save only
God & His Face, for everything perishes but His
Face.
- Al Ghazali.
The secondary, dependent, fragmentary & mortal
condition of ego(own face) viz-a-viz The Primary,
Independent, Individualized & Immortal Presence
of The I AM Principle(The Face of God) is
highlighted in this quote.
In the beginning was THE WORD & THE
WORD was with GOD & THE WORD was
GOD.
- St. John.
Words derive their power from THE
ORIGINAL WORD.
- Eckhart.
Everything that IS, bears written upon it, this
NAME of GOD – I AM.
Verily, verily, I say unto YOU: Before
Abraham was, I AM.

- St. John.
Be still & know that I AM GOD.
- Psalms.
Let no one think lightly of THE WORD, lest
he be despising himself unawares.
- Clement of Alexandria.
I AM the Lord. I change not.
- Malachi.
Always remember that I alone AM holy & can
render YOU holy by transfusing My holiness unto
YOU.
- Sister Consolata.
God spoke never a word but One & that He holds
so dear that He will never say another. If He
stopped saying His Word, but for an instant even,
heaven & earth would disappear.
- Eckhart.
One Word spoke the Father which Word was His
Son & this Word He speaks ever in eternal silence
& in silence must It be heard by the soul.
- St. John of the Cross.
I AM the Origin & also the Dissolution of the
entire Universe.
- Bhagavad Gita.
I AM the Alpha & the Omega, the beginning & the
end, the first & the last.
- Revelation of St. John.
I AM the Lord & there is none else.
- Isaiah.
I AM everything that was, that IS, that shall be….Nor has
any mortal ever been able to discover what lies under My
veil.
- Inscription to Isis.
As gold exists before it is made into ornaments & will exist
after the ornaments are melted away & remains also as
gold in the intermediate stage when it is known by the
various names of ornaments, so AM I in relation to the
universe – I was, I shall be & I AM.
- Srimad Bhagavatam.
The lord says: Stand in the gate of God’s
house & proclaim His Word, extol His Word.
The heavenly Father speaks One Word &
that He speaks eternally & in this Word
expends He all His Might; His entire God-
nature He utters in this Word & the whole of
Creatures. This Word lies hidden in the soul
unnoticed & beyond our ken. Were it not for
rumors in the ground of hearing we should
never heed it, but all sounds & voices have to
cease & silence, perfect stillness reign.
- Eckhart.
The true gnostic is one who sees everything
worshipped as a manifestation of God; hence
every worshipped thing gets the Name of God
(ILAH) besides its own name of stone, tree,
animal, man or angel.
- Ibn al-Arabi
I AM in heaven & in earth, in water & in air;
I AM in beasts & plants; I AM a babe in the
womb & one that is not yet conceived & one
that has been born; I AM present everywhere
- Heremes
God spoke but One Word & in virtue of that in a
moment were made the Sun, Moon & the
innumerable multitude of Stars, with their
differences in brightness, motion & influence.
He spoke & they were made. A single Word of
God’s filled the air with birds & the sea with fishes,
made spring from the earth all the plants & all the
beasts we see…This Word then, whilst most simple
& most single, produces all the distinction of
things, being invariable produces all fit changes &
being permanent in Its eternity gives succession,
vicissitude, order, rank & season to all things.
- St. Francis de Sales
People say: Worship this god! Worship that god!
One god after another! The entire world is His
creation & He Himself all the Gods….
He has entered into all this world, even to the tips
of one’s fingernails, like the razor in a razor case,
like fire in firewood. Him they see not; for as seen
He is incomplete.
When breathing He is called the vital-breath; when
speaking, voice; when seeing, the eye; when
hearing, the ear; when thinking, mind. These are
but names of His acts. Anyone meditating on one
or another of these aspects, knows not; for in one
or
another of these, He is incomplete. One should
worship with the idea that He is one’s Self; for
therein all these become one. This – the Self – is the
footprint of this All; and just as, verily, one finds
cattle by a footprint, so one finds this All by its
footprint – the Self.
Whoever knows “I AM brahman” becomes this All
& not even the gods can prevent his becoming thus,
for He becomes their very Self. But whoever
worships another divinity than His Self, supposing
“He is one, I am another” knows not. He is like a
sacrificial beast for the gods. And as many animals
would be useful to a man, so is even one such
person useful to the gods. But even one animal is
taken away, it is not pleasant. What if many! It is
not pleasing to the gods, therefore, that people
should know this.
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad.
Nothing satisfies the soul except the Father who is
altogether good & absolutely simple. The more
simple the soul, the more like God she is. God
spoke never a word but One: His simple
understanding. If the soul is to be simple, she must
withdraw from multiplicity into this One
Conception.
God alone originates of Himself, He who can say:
I AM. What is based on itself apart from Him is
pride. Herein consists the fall of lucifer. For he
wished to stand on that which has no foundation &
thus it is that he fell into the void.
- St. Hildegard