"How freeing of a thought: instead of worrying about leaving a legacy, to leave no trace of one's existence. How liberating indeed!"

"Poetry is jealous of you tonight, for as soon as I come to pen a few words, your perfume attacks me in the most civilised manner and I forget myself. I forget the poem. I forget the ..."

"For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?"

"Whenever you are angry, take a beautiful object in your house and smash it to pieces. The pity you feel for what you have done is silly compared to what you are doing to your mind: taking a sacred moment to be alive and desecrating it by being angry."

"If love weighs you downand casts a shadow on your lifethen it isn't love.Love is light and makes you light."

"You know how sometimes you meet someone and you feel like you've known them your whole life?Well, I feel like I've loved you my whole life."

"I love you so much I want to share youwith yourself.I know you do not insist that I do, but I love you so much I want to shareGod with you."

"Our daily prayer ought to be: Please universe, help me help myself and help me show others how to help themselves."

"I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities - as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place,because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them."

"Close your eyes. Meditate on your love. This is God."

"For all these stars,nothing is new.They've seen all kinds of warsand miracles, too.They know the messengers with their holy bookswill smile and wash their hands in blood.They know the politicians with their good lookswill make the poor eat pies of mud.They've seen the Earth freeze and then burn with greed.They've seen the treesand the seas emptied.Yet, you won't hear their sneerswhen a man arrivesand, having experienced a number of years,proclaims: 'I have lived!'Because nothing is new under these stars:the lies, the love, the memories and scars, the ruin, the revolution, the fakes and true,the families, the friends, none of it is new.All of it-even the me and you."

"My love, we can close our eyes but we cannot stop the sunrise."

"With you, I am. Without you, I am not."

"To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is self-love."

"I was mistaken when I said you live in my heart. How absurd I was when you live in my fingertips so that everything I touch is you. How foolish I was when you live in my toes so that everywhere I go there's you. How senseless of me to say you live in my heart when you breathe in my lungs, walk on my mind, and drink in my mouth. I came to pen another poem for you, but even every unwritten poem is you."

"First, create your ego. Then destroy it. This is all of life."

"The only thing necessary in this world is love. Everything else is secondary."

"Break open your heart so that I may enter it."

"Name and form are simply illusions of separation. Love doesn't make us blind; rather, it erases the illusions so we can see clearly."

"Eyes and ears are two.Lungs and kidneys, too.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that skips a beat when hay is here,and beats quickly when you are near.One heart that cracks when you are far, lie to me and leave a scar.I wonder thenwhy we're born with oneheart that gets broken.Was I supposed to find you then?So your heart would make one plus one is twofor me andtwo for you."

"Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you."

"I began to write because of love. I wrote to understand what I felt and what I knew."

"Forget your voice, sing!Forget your feet, dance!Forget your life, live!Forget yourself and be!"

"Grace is neither gentleness nor fragility. Grace is treating yourself, others, and even inanimate objects with respect."

"Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover."

"I cannot imagine how much I must've suffered in my previous lives to be fortunate enough to have parents like you in this life."

"Poetry isn't an island, it is the bridge. Poetry isn't a ship, it is the lifeboat. Poetry isn't swimming. Poetry is water."

"Our homes travel with us. They are wherever we feel loved and accepted."

"Know this: whenever you think of leaving, a part of you has already left. But it's never too late to get it back."

"If on any given day you don't cry from rejoicing in the beauty of the world, then you have not lived that day."

"String theory makes sense to me because the universe is a symphony that creates harmony with the vibration of our strings."

"The hardest thing in the world is to let go of who you once thought you were and to manifest your true self, at the risk of being unloved. This is self-actualization."

"When you are here, God is near."

"A soulmate is a direct pathway to God."

"Work. Good, honest work, whether it's working with your hands to create an artwork, or manual labour, brings forth a sense of divinity at play. The only prerequisite is that whatever the work is, it is done sincerely and in congruence with the soul's true origin and intent, then, without any effort, one experiences a flow, wherein one feels a part of the plan of the entire universe."

"How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That's because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception."

"God begets love."

"Let us remember to always rediscover one anotherbecause we are forever changing."

"Sometimes, when inspiration runs dry, I drink classical music until my words spill out."

"Knowing you,I became mindless.Having wasted previous wishes,I'm riddled with regretsFeeling you,I became hopeless.Adrift in chasms,I surrender to a caress.Loving you,I became love.My universe became love.Planets rotate on love's axes andapples fall to be near their beloveds.No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love. I love, therefore I exist,therefore I love."

"She placed her hand on her chest and thought, 'So this is what the poets write about'."

"Where were you when I undressed and told the tales of my day?Where were youwhenI was silent with God in prandial pray?Where were youwhen I recited love poems as I lay?Where were you?"

"Think not of the fragility of life, but of the power of books, when mere words can change our lives simply by being next to each other."

"Listen.Do you see that you can't hear snowfall?Look.Do you sensethat you can't see love?Touch.Do you graspthat you can't catch poems?Try.Smell this glass. Go on taste this cloud.These material senses won't get you far untilyou feelthe velvet glove caress your soul."

"I wish for all of us the blindness of love that makes us see no faults in the other."

"Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with prideFor they are the players of harmony.Pilgrims, too, wear the imprint on their foreheads with prideFor they are the conductors of unity.And Lovers? Why, they are made humble by the imprint on their heartsFor they are merely the instruments of rhapsody."

"Polish the mirror of your heart until it reflects every person's light."

"You might just find God in a mirror one day."

"All you need to get by in this world is the memory of love."

"You are my favourite part of life."