He is like a man using a candle to look for the sun.
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.
The undisciplined man doesn’t wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world.
Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.
Love will find its way through all languages on its own.
Because of your love I have broken with my past.
Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?
Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.
Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.
What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.
Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness.
Whoever acts with respect will get respect.
Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!
They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.
With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.
Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun.
For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.