Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God’s lover, yet you worry what people are saying.

You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor…Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably....

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!

Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?

This silence, this moment, every moment, if it’s genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There’s nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.Sit quietly, and listen...

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,and in exchange gain the Ocean.Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,and in the arms of the Sea be secure.Who indeed should be so fortunate?An Ocean wooing...

A life without love is of no account. Don’t ask yourself what kind of love you should seek, spiritual or material, divine or mundane, Eastern or Western. Divisions only lead to more divisions. Love has...

When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off;you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy.…People fancy they are enjoying themselves,but they are really tearing out their wingsfor the sake of an illusion.

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

The ground’s generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart.

My BelovedKnow that my beloved in hidden from everyoneKnow that she is beyond the belief of all beliefsKnow that in my heart she is as clear as the moonKnow that she is the life in...

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was.

Come to the orchard in Spring.There is light and wine, and sweetheartsin the pomegranate flowers.If you do not come, these do not matter.If you do come, these do not matter.

You are the source of the sun.And I am the willow’s shadow. Oh, you have struck me on the head,Wretch that I am, on fire am I.

You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling,...

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

I want that love that moved the mountains. I want that love that split the ocean. I want that love that made the winds tremble. I want that love that roared like thunder. I want...

İstediğin bir şey olmuyorsa ya daha iyisi olacağı için ya da gerçekten de olmaması gerektiği için olmuyordur.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I’ll meet you there.When the soul lies down in that grassthe world is too full to talk about.

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

Woman is the light of God.

Looking for Your FaceFrom the beginning of my lifeI have been looking for your facebut today I have seen itToday I have seenthe charm, the beauty,the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking forToday I...

I was deadI came aliveI was tearsI became laughterAll because of lovewhen it arrivedmy temporal lifefrom then onchanged to eternalLove said to meyou are notcrazy enoughyou don’tfit this houseI went andbecame crazycrazy enoughto be in...

Der Bettler ruft, um seine Not zu stillen,Der Fromme ruft um seiner Seele willen.

Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential.Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it.

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’re water. We’re the millstone.You’re wind. We’re dust blown up into shapes.You’re spirit. We’re the opening and closing of our hands. You’re the clarity.We’re the language that tries to say it.You’re joy. We’re all the...

And watch two men washing clothes,one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony.Every holy person seems to have...

You erased my famine, unpicked my angerYour energy charges my voice, it radiates my heart;Now I am alive with the ore of words pouringFrom my lips like molten lava glittering with joy.

DesireI desire youmore than foodand drinkMy bodymy sensesmy mindhunger for your tasteI can sense your presencein my heartalthough you belongto all the worldI waitwith silent passionfor one gestureone glancefrom you

And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

It is certain that an atom of goodness on the path of faith is never lost.

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.

Bitter your acts, bitter am I,Kindness your deeds, kindness am I,Pleasant and gentle, so you are,Fine honeyed lips and sweet talker.

Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.

I choose to love you in silence…For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness…For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance…For distance...

You whispered softly in the ear of my joyous heart.You know what’s on my mind, you’ve heard my thoughts.I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.

Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.

When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

The way you make love is the way God will be with you.

Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as...