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"My soul gave me good counsel, teaching me to love. Love was for me a delicate thread stretched between two adjacent pegs, but now it has been transformed into a halo, its first is its last, and its last is its first. It encompases every being, slowly expanding to embrace all that ever will be."
"Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul."
"I know you're tired but come, this is the way."
"Your defects are the ways that glory gets manifested ... 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."
"You can accomplish a hundred other things but if you do not accomplish the one thing for which you have been sent, it will be as if you have done nothing."
"Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend."
"I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast."
"If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones And if we come to wake we are in His hands If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love Who are we in this complicated world?"
"Seek the wisdom that will untie your knot. Seek the path that demands your whole being."
"Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur."
"I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars."
"I can sense your presence in my Heart although you belong to all the world."
"There is another language beyond language, another place beyond heaven and hell. Precious gems come from another mine, the heart draws light from another source."
"Doubt is a precipice on the way to God. Blessed is he who is freed from its bonds. He who fares without any doubt, adhere to his footprints if you do not know the way. Cleave to the footprints of the deer and advance with care that you may reach the musk-gland. By means of such trekking, even if you walk on fire, you will reach the luminous peak."
"Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!"
"You show your worth by what you seek."
"Load the ship and set out. No one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbor. Cautious people say, 'I'll do nothing until I can be sure.' Merchants know better. If you do nothing, you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who wont risk the ocean."
"Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things."
"This whole universe is but a drop of His Beauty!"