Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.
The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen.
A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has no labels, no definitions. It is what it is, pure and simple. Love is the water of life. And a lover is a soul of fire! The universe turns differently when fire loves water.
This moment is all there is.
The deeper the grief, the more radiant the love.
When a bird gets free, it does not go back for remnants left on the bottom of the cage.
If you can’t smell the fragrance don’t come into the garden of Love. If you’re unwilling to undress don’t enter into the stream of Truth. Stay where you are. Don’t come our way.
Don’t hand me another glass of wine. Pour it in my mouth. I’ve lost the way to my mouth.
A pearl in the shell does not touch the ocean. Be a pearl without a shell. a mindful flooding. a spark turned to flame. bird settling nest. love lived.
It doesn’t matter that you’ve broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come.
On my heart in beautiful calligraphy You’ve written words that only You and I can know. Their secret You promised to reveal one day but now I see You were only teasing.
Let me sit here, on the threshold of two worlds. Lost in the eloquence of silence.
With love you don’t bargain. There, the choice is not yours. Love is a mirror, it reflects only your essence, if you have the courage to look in its face.
The way the night knows itself with the moon, be that way with me. Or, alternately translated, Union is a raging river running toward the sea. Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved, be like that to me.
We cannot say much about love at first sight. It happens, and we live in the wake of a new life.
Dear heart, you are so unreasonable! First you fall in love then worry about your life. You rob and steal then worry about the law. You profess to be in love and still worry about what people say.
A lover has four streams inside, of water, wine, honey, and milk. Find those in yourself, and pay no attention what so-and-so says about such-and-such. The rose does not care if someone calls it a thorn, or a jasmine. Ordinary eyes categorize human beings, That one is a Zoroastrian. This one, Muslim. Walk instead with the other vision given you, your first eyes.
One day you will take my heart completely and make it more fiery than a dragon. Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.
Love is not love that doesn’t love the details of the beloved, the minute particulars.
Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.