Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.
If you want to ascend like the Prophet to the sky of immortality, know this very well: Fasting is your Arabian stallion.
Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.
The kitchen of the body darkens the lives of lovers. Fasting came to enlighten them.
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out.
When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.
Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.
Let lovers be crazy, disgraceful and wild Those who fret about such things Aren’t in love.
The testing of good and bad is in order that the gold may boil and bring the scum to the top.
Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.
If reason dominates in man, he rises higher than angels. If lust overpowers man, he descends lower than the beast.
The world is a playground, and death is the night.
He who tastes not, knows not.
Flattery’s fire is hidden. Its sweet taste is apparent, but the smoke is bound to come out at last.
Greed makes man blind and foolish, and makes him an easy prey for death.
If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away.
Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.
Intellect in its effort to explain Love got stuck in the mud like an ass. Love alone could explain love and loving.
Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter.
For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.