Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one
“We rarely hear the inward music, but we’re all dancing to it nevertheless.”
Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.
“You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
“Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.”
“I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.”
“You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.”
“I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home.”
“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
“There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?”
“Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes.”
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
“When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.”
“If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me.. For I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens.”
“God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one”.
“Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.”
There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger.
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.
“This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.”
“There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.”
“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.”
“Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.”
If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.
“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”
“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.”