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If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.

Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

No one looks back and regrets leaving this world. What's regretted is how real we thought it was.

When we talk about GOD, we’re like a school of fish, discussing the possible existence of the sea.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.

All the world Loves You, but You are nowhere to be found, Hidden and yet . . . completely obvious!

The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!

You don't see your own face, your own beauty Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.......... .

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.

Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.

There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!

I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.

Fasting is the first principle of medicine; fast and see the strength of the spirit reveal itself.

All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony. Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting.

Love is that flame that once kindled burns everything, and only the mystery and the journey remain.

I can't stop pointing to the beauty. Every moment and place says, 'Put this design in your carpet!'

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

Flattery's fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

She loved him so much she concealed his name in many phrases, the inner meanings known only to her.

Humble yourself, you’ll grow greater than the world.Your Self will be revealed to you, without you.

Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune: every success depends upon focusing the heart.

Disharmony prevails when you confuse Lust with LOVE, while the distance between the two is endless!

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

Treasure is stored in the ruined places. Do not break the hearts of the poor and heartbroken people

I will be waiting here.... For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

I turn all thorn then, but you come back again and make my thorniness fragrant and pink and petaled.

There is no reality but God , says the completely surrendered sheik, who is an ocean for all beings.

Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up where you are.

Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.

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