"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."
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"Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."
"I don’t regret how much I love, and I avoid those who repent their passion."
"When you stop admiring yourself and let the eyes of the heart open your vision to vast other worlds then all you do, will become admirable"
"A life without LOVE isn’t a life."
"God writes spiritual Mysteries on our heart, where they wait silently for discovery."
"Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl"
"The Water said to the dirty one, “Come here.” The dirty one said, “I am too ashamed.” The water replied, “How will your shame be washed away without me?"
"It was our Creator who led us through the stages of evolution, from the animal state to the human. His purpose was to make us intelligent and aware, so that we might know Him."
"In fact, I am aware of the fake entities in my life. I know that I can clear them if I wanted to in a moment. But all this hollowness Needs my Sincerity."
"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."
"Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul."
"I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars."
"Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart."
"Criticism polishes my mirror."
"O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you"
"With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?"
"When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth."
"You must ask for what you really want."
"Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water."
"If only you knew what bliss I find in being nothing."