Life’s waters flow from darkness, Search the darkness, don’t run from it.
This is how the world speaks to us. It delights in spring blossoms, even as they fall.
In the driest whitest stretch of pain’s infinite desert, I lost my sanity and found this rose.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!
You are searching the world for treasure, but the real treasure is yourself.
This is now. Now is. Don’t postpone till then. Spend the spark of iron on stone. Sit at the head of the table. Dip your spoon in the bowl. Seat yourself next to your joy and have your awakened soul pour wine. Branches in the spring wind, easy dance of jasmine and cypress. Cloth for green robes has been cut from pure absence. You’re the tailor, settled among his shop goods, quietly sewing.
The lover visible, the Beloved invisible: whose crazy idea was this?
And if every way is closed before you. The secret one will show a secret path no other eyes have seen.
Talking to someone sleepy is like drawing pictures on water with your finger.
Once the arrow has left the bow it will never return, and so are words that leave our lips.
They followed the middle way of Muhammad, which included marriage, a socially useful livelihood, and a life “in the world but not of it.
If you find me not within you, you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.
I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want that love that will raise the dead. I want that love that lifts us to ecstasy. I want that love that is the silence of eternity.
Beyond this world is another world for us. This world and its delights cater to the animal within us. These pleasures all fill our animal nature, while our real self slowly dies. They say, “The human being is a rational animal,” yet we consist of two things. Lusts and desires feed our animality in this material world. But as for our true essence, its food is knowledge, wisdom, and the sight of God. The animality within us flees away from God, while our spiritual self flees away from this world.
Half-Heartedness Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness does not reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses.
Traveling is as refreshing for some as staying at home is for others.
The life-energy in a body contains eternity.
Didn’t I tell you, Don’t run away from me! Didn’t I tell you, In this empty fantasy, Even if for centuries, you wander angrily You’ll never find another true companion like me.
You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?
Your fragrance is always with me.