My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you’ve been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you’ve always looked outside for Him, and haven’t searched within your own house.
A craftsman pulled a reed from the reedbed, cut holes in it, and called it a human being. Since then, it’s been wailing a tender agony of parting, never mentioning the skill that gave it life as a flute.
Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky’s mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
The rose’s rarest essence lives in the thorns.
Nothing can help me but that beauty. There was a dawn I remember when my soul heard something from your soul. I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me.
Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.
I am weary of personal worrying, in love with the art of madness.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep.
Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.
There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them.
Because I cannot sleep I make music in the night.
You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.
I want to be where your bare foot walks, because maybe before you step, you’ll look at the ground. I want that blessing.
Hall of Love has ten thousand swords. Don’t be afraid to use one.
Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.
I am the servant of the Qur’an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One.
Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself.
When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.