Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.
Set your sights on a place higher than your eyes can see.
If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.
In this life many demolitions are actually renovations.
If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself.
Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.
Whatever pearl you seek, look for the pearl within the pearl!
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion.
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.
Life s picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment.
There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.
A lover’s life lies in death. You shall not find a heart without losing the heart.
You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
You are the mirror of divine beauty.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
Poems are rough notations for the music we are.
Keep on knocking ’til the joy inside opens a window look to see who’s there.
The Prophets accept all agony and trust it For the water has never feared the fire.
The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.