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Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

You could string a hundred endless days together, My soul would find no comfort from this pain. You laugh at my tale? You may be educated But you havenâ€™t learned to love till youâ€™re insane

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oÆ’ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

Reality is blocked by form and image.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

Those who are pure in heart achieve God-consciousness; they are truly and actually aware of God at the center of their being (their heart). These sanctified individuals are said to be Possessors of the Heart.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

No better love than love with no object

If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.

Never be without remembrance of Him, for His remembrance gives strength and wings to the bird of the Spirit.

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Embark on the journey of LOVE. It takes you from yourself to yourself.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

What comes, will go. What is found, will be lost again. But what you are is beyond coming and going and beyond description.

Every moment a taste of that beauty in our mouths, another stashed in a pocket. Impossible to say what: no cypress so handsome, no sunlight, a lonely hiddenness. Other pleasure gathers a crowd, starts a fight, lots of noise there. But soul beauty stays quiet..his amazing whereabouts unknown inside m

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don'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 open Don't go back to sleep!

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

Our purpose here on earth: to manifest the very nature of our spirit, which is touched by the spirit of God.

What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.

Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you k

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