I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.
Love is the water of life, jump into this water.
To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved.
There’s courage involved if you want to become Truth.
Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed.
My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown.
You have no need to travel anywhere – journey within yourself. Enter a mine of rubies and bathe in the splendor of your own light.
Open your arms if you want the Beloved’s embrace.
In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.
What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there.
A pure heart, open to the Light, will be filled with the elixir of Truth.
Whatever you know, or don’t – only Love is real.
Heart is a sea, language is the shore. Whatever is in a sea hits the shore.
Knock, And He’ll open the door Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.