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"I’ve been looking for a long, long time, for this thing called love, I’ve ridden comets across the sky, and I’ve looked below and above. Then one day I looked inside myself, and this is what I found, A golden sun residing there, beaming forth God’s light and sound."
"Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend."
"No prayer is complete without presence."
"The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth."
"Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore."
"The body is a device to calculate the astronomy of the spirit. Look through that astrolabe and become oceanic."
"The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself."
"You wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace That is already around your neck!"
"Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns."
"Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al"
"This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden."
"We are the mirror, as well as the face in it. We are tasting the taste of eternity this minute. We are pain and what cures pain. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. Soul of the world, no life, nor world remain, no beautiful women and men longing. Only this ancient love circling the holy black stone of nothing. Where the lover is the loved, the horizon and everything within it."
"Nothing is meaningful except surrendering to love. Do it."
"If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts."
"There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside."
"A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music."
"In this mob of I's inside, which one is me? Hear me out. I know I'm wandering, but don't start putting a lid on this racket. No telling what I'll do then. Every moment I'm thrown by your story. One moment it's happy, and I'm singing. One moment it's sad, and I'm weeping. It turns bitter, and I pull away. But then you spill a little grace, and just like that, I'm all light. It's not so bad, this arrangement, actually."
"Listen to the unstruck sounds, and what sifts through that music."
"Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world."
"I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . ."