“Whoever has recognized the world has found the body; yet whoever has found the body, of him the world is not worthy.”

The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Cries rise up on every side. Who shouts? It is we who shout — the living, the dead, and the unborn. But at once we are crushed by fear, and we fall silent.
And then we forget — out of laziness, out of habit, out of cowardice. But suddenly the Cry tears at our entrails once more, like an eagle.
For the Cry is not outside us, it does not come from a great distance that we may escape it. It sits in the center of our hearts, and cries out.
God shouts: "Burn your houses! I am coming! Whoever has a house cannot receive me!
"Burn your ideas, smash your thoughts! Whoever has found the solution cannot find me."

Source: Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan

Variant: I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things.
Source: The Alchemist

1 John 3:17,18 http://wol.jw.org/en/wol/b/r1/lp-e/nwt/E/2013/62/3#dcv_3_17, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
First Letter of John

Nahj al-Balagha

Speech at West Point (5 December 1962), in Vital Speeches, January 1, 1963, page 163.

Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 588
Sunni Hadith

Psychomagic: The Transformative Power of Shamanic Psychotherapy (2010)

The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary