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

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. What you seek is seeking you."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

"Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love."

"Love is the bridge between you and everything."

"When you seek love with all your heart you shall find its echo in the universe."

"Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love."

"We are born of love, Love is our mother."

"Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there."

"Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live."

"If I love myself, I love you. If I love you, I love myself."

"Be soulful. Be kind. Be in love."

"On the path of love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the master painter."

"Love risks everything and asks for nothing."

"Be drunk with love, for love is all that exists."

"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."

"Love sometimes wants to do us a great favor: hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out."

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

"This is a subtle truth. Whatever you love you are."

"If you are seeking, seek us with joy for we live in the kingdom of joy. Do not give your heart to anything else but to the love of those who are clear joy, Do not stray into the neighborhood of despair. For there are hopes: they are real, they exist – Do not go in the direction of darkness – I tell you: suns exist."

"Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. Love embraces all."

"If you want to win hearts, sow the seeds of Love. If you want heaven, stop scattering thorns on the road."

"Whatever happens, just keep smiling and lose yourself in love."

"A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke."

"Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames."

"Life is a balance of holding on and letting go."

"Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening, so your Life will stay fresh."

"Live life as if everything is rigged in your favor."

"You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it."

"Purify your eyes, and see the pure world. Your life will fill with radiant forms."

"With life as short as a half taken breath, don’t plant anything but love."

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

"There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God."

"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful."

"In the silence of love, you will find the spark of life."

"I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life."

"The very center of your Heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on Earth."

"The result of my life is no more than three words: I was raw, I became cooked, I was burnt."

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

"Let silence take you to the core of life."

"If you want money more than anything, you will be bought and sold your whole life"

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul."

"One change is thought leads to a change in your destiny."

"Every new day is another chance to change your life."

"Life picture is constantly undergoing change. The spirit beholds a new world every moment."

"The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same."

"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."

"Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought."

"Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one."

"Your way begins at the other side.
Become the sky.
Take an axe to the prison wall.
Escape.
Walk out like someone suddenly born into color.
Do it now."

"Those who don’t feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in sunset like a supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep."

"Nothing can nourish the SOUL but LIGHT."

"Wash the dust from your Soul and Heart with wisdom's Water."

"The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand."

"Every soul becomes gold, when touched by the Beloved."

"Only the soul knows what Love is."

"Lose your soul in God's Love,
I swear there is no other way."

"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."

"In fact, My soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you."

"The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret."

"Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world."

"With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find itself."

"I have put the ear of my soul in the widow of your heart."

"My soul is my guide."

"Your breath touched my soul and I saw beyond all limits."

"Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel – I am the carpenter of my own soul."

"Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed."

"Love is the soul's light, the taste of morning, no me, no we, no claim of being."

"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."

"The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles."

"Apparently two, but one in soul, You and I."

"If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul."

"If something makes you happy in this world, you should think of what will happen to you if that thing were taken away."

"Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom."

"O, happy the soul that saw its own faults."

"When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth"

"Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space."

"People want you to be happy, don’t keep serving them your pain."

"If I could, I would take away your pain and make you feel happy in every way."

"Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness."

"I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow."

"It is Love that gives joy to happiness."

"Be full of sorrow, that you may become hill of joy; weep, that you may break into laughter."

"What a joy, to travel the way of the heart."

"The soul is here for its own joy."

"Patience is the key to joy."

"If you look for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless."

"The one who has a good friend doesn’t need any mirror."

"Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love."

"Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend."

"Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you."

"My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way."

"A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another."

"I love my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case my heart might stop and mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets."

"Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends"

"There is nothing I want but your presence. In friendship, time dissolves."

"Friends are enemies sometimes and enemies, friends."

"A warm, rainy day-this is how it feels when friends get together. Friend refreshes friend then, as flowers do each others, in a spring rain."

"Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden."

"Stay with friends who support you. Talk with them about sacred texts, how you are doing and how they are doing. Keep your practices together."

"Till man destroys 'self' he is no true friend of God."

"Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."

"Let silence take you to the core of life."

"Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don’t walk into the river. Listen to the ocean."

"Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear."

"I choose to love you in silence, for in silence I find no rejection."

"Silence is the sea, and speech is like the river. The sea is seeking you: don’t seek the river. Don’t turn your head away from the signs offered by the sea."

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

"In the silence of LOVE you will find the Spark of LIFE."

"Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."

"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways."

"There is a place where words are born of silence."

"All is known in the sacredness of silence."

"This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language."

"Carry your baggage towards silence, when you seek the signs of the way."

"There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes."

"I want that love that is the silence of eternity."

"Let Silence speak to you about the secrets of the universe."

"Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence."

"Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness."

"I will be waiting here…. For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake."

"Let silence be the art you practice."

"Do not consider what strangers say. Be secluded in your secret heart-house, that bowl of silence."

"Silence gives answers."

"Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk."

"Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life."

"Persist in gratitude, and you will slowly become one with the Sun of Love, and Love will shine through you its all-healing joy."

"Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude."

"The path of gratitude is not for children; it is path of tender heroes, of the heroes of tenderness who, whatever happens, keep burning on the altar of their hearts the flame of adoration."

"Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives."

"We owe thankfulness to God, not sour faces."

"Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

"Be with those who help your being."

"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful."

"You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

"Anyone who genuinely and constantly with both hands looks for something, will find it."

"Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself."

"Don’t be satisfied with stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth."

"There is a desert I long to be walking. A wide emptiness, peace beyond any understanding of it."

"The garden of the world has no limit except in your mind."

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

"In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal."

"You are not one you are a thousand. Just light your lantern."

"Respond to every call that excites your spirit."

"I found the Divine within my Heart."

"You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens."

"Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart."

"That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility."

"Only from the heart can you touch the sky."

"I can heal a broken heart with a smile."

"The heart is the secret inside the secret."

"Don’t you know yet? It is your light that lights the worlds."

"In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art."

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

"You are the light of the universe; never dim your shine."

"The lamps are different, but the Light is the same."

"Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; how much it can fill your room depends on its windows."

"The light which shines in the eye is really the light of the heart."

"I am merely a particle of light, dancing in the eternal ocean of love."

"Do not try to search for the light. Become the light, and the search will end."

"Don’t wait for the light; become the light. "

"As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner."

"Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop."

"The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on Earth."

"Shine like the whole universe is yours."

"Know that one day, your pain will become your cure."

"Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart."

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

"Achieve some perfection yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others."

"When you find love, you will find yourself. When you have the knowledge of love, you will then feel peace in your heart. Stop searching here and there, the Jewels are inside you. This, my friends, is the holy meaning of love."

"Protect yourself from your own thoughts."

"You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust, you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin."

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others’ faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

"This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you already are. "

"Every midwife knows that not until a mother’s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend! There is treasure in your heart, it is heavy with child. Listen. All the awakened ones, like trusted midwives are saying, 'welcome this pain. It opens the dark passage of Grace."

"I profess the religion of love, Love is my religion and my faith. My mother is love My father is love My prophet is love My God is love I am a child of love I have come only to speak of love."

"We are born of love. Love is our mother."

"Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?"

"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."

"When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!"