I purified my lips with sacred fire that I might speak of love, but when I opened my mouth to speak, I found myself mute.
God has bestowed upon you intelligence and knowledge. Do not extinguish the lamp of Divine Grace and do not let the candle of wisdom die out in the darkness of lust and error. For a wise man approaches with his torch to light up the path of mankind.
Then it is also in my heart to be worthy of your hate.
Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.
The philosopher’s soul dwells in his head, the poet’s soul is in his heart; the singer’s soul lingers about his throat, but the soul of the dancer abides in all her body.
And all knowledge is vain save when there is work, and all work is empty save when there is love; and when you work with love you bind yourself to yourself, and to one another, and to God.
The feelings we live through in love and in loneliness are simply, for us, what high tide and low tide are to the sea.
I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.