"It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost."

"Don't you know Yet? It is your light that lights the World."

"Your faces are very beautiful,but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire."

"The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell youDon't go back to sleep!You must ask for what you really want.Don't go back to sleep!People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,The door is round and openDon't go back to sleep!"

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

"When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

"Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!"

"Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!"

"You are a volume in the divine booka mirror to the power that created the universewhatever you want, ask it of yourselfwhatever you're looking for can only be foundinside of you."

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

"The way you make love is the way God will be with you."

"And watch two men washing clothes,one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work."

"Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you."

"I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way.Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."

"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."

"Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies."

"And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger."

"The wit taught by God to the beeIs withheld from the lion and the wild ass."

"Knock, And He'll open the doorVanish, And He'll make you shine like the sunFall, And He'll raise you to the heavensBecome nothing, And He'll turn you into everything."

"Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another."

"What does not come into man's imagination is called a "gift" because whatever passes through his imagination is in proportion to his aspiration and his worth. However, God's gift is in proportion to God's worth....no matter how much eyes have seen, ears heard, or minds conceived the gift you expect of Me, My gift is above and beyond all that."

"Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying."

"My Soul is my Guide, for my Soul is of that Abode I will not Speak of the Earthly, I am of the Unknown."

"Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support."

"Infinite mercy flows continuallyBut you're asleep and can't see it.The sleeper's robe goes on drinking river waterWhile he frantically hunts mirages in dreamsAnd runs continually here and there shouting,"There'll be water further on, I know!"It's this false thinking that blocks himFrom the path that leads to himself,By always saying, "Further on!"He's become estranged from "here":Because of a false fantasyHe's driven from reality."

"You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art."

"By the day,I praised you and never knew it, by night, I stayed with you and never knew it. I always thought I was me but no,I was you and never knew it."

"Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged."

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves."

"Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines."

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was."

"Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."

"You are the Truth from foot to brow. Now, what else would you like to know?"

"A wealth you cannot imagineflows through you.Do not consider what strangers say.Be secluded in your secret heart-house,that bowl of silence."

"Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness."

"Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."

"My wails of sorrow are tormenting my soul."

"Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings."

"Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion, and that conservative religious belief a kind of disbelief, and without showing tolerance to opposite ideas, one cannot succeed. Those who look for the truth will accomplish the mission."

"Let go of your mind and then be mindful.Close your ears and listen!"

"I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case. Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets."

"It's your road, and yours alone.others may walk it with you,but no one can walk it for you."

"Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."

"We may know who we are or we may not. We may be Muslims, Jews or Christians but until our hearts become the mould for every heart we will see only our differences."

"Oh soul, you worry too much. Your arms are heavy with treasures of all kinds."

"I made an oath to myself:as long as I liveas long as my soul remains in this bodyI won't deviate from the right waybut later I looked to my left and then to my rightand I saw our beloved everywherehow could I make a wrong turn?"