The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
The gates made of light swing open. You see in.
That moon which the sky never saw even in dreams has risen again
Open your arms if you want the Beloved's embrace.
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
Live in the opening where there is no door to hide behind.
Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.
The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I.
The body itself is to reveal the light that's blazing inside your Presence.
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.
When lovers of life get ready to dance, the earth shakes and the sky trembles.
Enough of words. Come to me without a sound.
There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.
Your mind, this globe of awareness, is a starry universe. When you push off with your foot, a thousand new roads become clear.
Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go. ...Oh, you cannot go, without me.
Be silent. That heart speaks without tongue or lips.
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