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The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.
Kill the cow of your ego as quickly as you can, so that your inner spirit can come to life and attain true awareness.
Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows.
What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.
Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.
Walk to the well. Turn as the earth and the moon turn, circling what they love. Whatever circles comes from the center.
I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you'll look at the ground. I want that blessing
Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.
A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.
Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.
Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.
Ways of worshipping are not to be ranked as better or worse than one another . . . It's all praise, and it's all right.
Love is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end. Imagine, a suspended ocean, riding on a cushion of ancient secrets.
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Someone sober will worry about events going badly. Let the lover be.
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.
You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
This world's existence is one night long. There's a great lively gathering that night, but some people sleep through it.
The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.
You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep.
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.
Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He is.
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.
Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
Love is an open secret, the most obvious thing in the world and the most hidden, with no why to how it keeps its mystery.
Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.
You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.
Dance, and make joyous the love around you. Dance, and your veils which hide the Light shall swirl in a heap at your feet.
Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.
If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve.
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.
Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed.
If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.
You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness.
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres.
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean.
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?
This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.
Stop, open up, surrender the beloved blind silence. Stay there until you see you're looking at the light with infinite eyes.
There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it.
Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.
And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.