The feelings trembled and flapped in his chest like a bird newly put in a cage.
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.
Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.
No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping. I wonder myself.
You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. “Why are you looking at me like a madman?” I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
Every fragile beauty, every perfect forgotten sentence, you grieve their going away, but that is not how it is. Where they come from never goes dry. It is an always flowing spring.
Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.
Know mankind well, don’t degrade every man as evil, and don’t exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.
Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.
I am not from east or west, not up from the ground, or out of the ocean. My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless. I belong to the beloved.
Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive.
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?
I made an oath to myself: as long as I live as long as my soul remains in this body I won’t deviate from the right way but later I looked to my left and then to my right and I saw our beloved everywhere how could I make a wrong turn?
You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane.
Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven’t been patient.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.