"There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved.And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?'The lover replied, 'It is I.''Go hence,' returned the voice;'there is no room within for thee and me.'Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded,'Who is there?'He answered, 'It is thou.''Enter,' said the voice, 'for I am within."

"Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself."

"Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."

"The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground."

"Go back,go back to sleep.Yes, you are allowed.You who have no Love in your heart,you can go back to sleep.The power of Loveis exclusive to us,you can go back to sleep.I have been burntby the fire of Love.You who have no such yearning in your heart,go back to sleep.The path of Love,has seventy-two folds and countless facets.Your love and religionis all about deceit, control and hypocrisy,go back to sleep.I have torn to pieces my robe of speech,and have let go of the desire to converse.You who are not naked yet,you can go back to sleep."

"I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns."

"Peygamber dedi: 'Kadın, akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.' Öncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık vasfıdır. Öfke ve şehvet, hayvanlık vasfıdır. O, Hakk’ın ayağıdır; sevgili değildir. O, sanki yaratıcıdır; yaratılmış değildir."

"The cure for pain is in the pain."

"Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."

"A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known."

"With life as short as a half taken breath, don't plant anything but love."

"Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah, it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."

"Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!"

"My heart is so smallit's almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?"Look," He answered,"your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world."

"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."

"If metal can be polishedto a mirrorlike finish,what polishing might the mirrorof the heart require?Between the mirror and the heartis this single difference:the heart conceals secrets,while the mirror does not."

"When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."

"You know how it is. Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another."

"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."

"Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry."

"In the silence of love, you will find the spark of life."

"Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you."

"Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being."

"I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"

"If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek."

"The moon splits open.We move through, waterbirds risingto look for another lake.Or say we are living in a love-ocean,where trust works to caulk our body-boat,to make it last a little while,until the inevitable shipwreck,the total marriage, the death-union.Dissolve in friendship,like two drunkards fighting.Do not look for justice herein the jungle where your animal soulgives you bad advice.Drink enough wine so that you stop talking.You are a lover, and love is a tavernwhere no one makes much sense.Even if the things you say are poemsas dense as sacks of Solomon's gold,they become pointless."

"How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire."

"For beloved cross every pass Worldly affairs slow their pace A flowing brook amidst the grass Flowing tears his face shall trace His ego is shattered glass Self-estranged, himself deface Sense the Divine in spirit and mass If he is truly seeking grace."

"Go find yourself first so you can also find me."

"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."

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"

"The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings."

"If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home."

"Your depression is connected to your insolenceand refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or womansteals from others every day--is a shoplifter!The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself.Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline.The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes.The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close."

"Like a sculptor, if necessary,carve a friend out of stone.Realize that your inner sight is blindand try to see a treasure in everyone."

"When you go through a hard period,When everything seems to oppose you,... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,NEVER GIVE UP!Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!"

"You have forgotten the Onewho doesn't care about ownership,who doesn't try to turn a profitfrom every human exchange."

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?"

"Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?"

"Why struggle to open a door between us when the whole wall is an illusion?"

"Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation."

"The lover's ailment is separate from all other ailments: love is the astrolabe of the mysteries of God."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."

"All the tears which we creatures shed for Him are not tears as many think but pearls...."

"I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you."

"You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin."

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

"Anyone who knows me, should learn to know me again;For I am like the Moon,you will see me with new face everyday."