I break out laughing. I frown.I yell and scream. Sometimes,if one jokes and giggles,one causes war.So I hide how tickled I am.Tears well up in my eyes.My body is a large city.Much grieving in one...

I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.

Give your weakness to one who helps.

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns.

People who repress desiresoften turn, suddenly,into hypocrites.

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.

Don’t make the body do what the spirit does best, and don’t put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

Eblis said, “No man who thinks ill, will hear the truth despite a hundred signs.When one who fantasises is presented with reason his fantasies increase.When one talks to such a person, their words become the...

To live without youis to be robbed of loveand what is life without it?To live without youis death to me, my lovebut some call it life.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Peygamber dedi: ‘Kadın akıllılara ve gönül sahiplerine tam galip gelir. Cahillerse kadına üstün olur, çünkü onlar sert ve serkeş davranır.’ İncelik, letafet ve insaf onlarda az bulunur, çünkü tabiatlarında hayvanlık galiptir. Sevgi ve incelik, insanlık...

When soul risesInto lipsYou feel the kiss You have wanted

Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.

Die! Die! Die in this love!If you die in this love,Your soul will be renewed. Die! Die! Don’t fear the death of that which is knownIf you die to the temporal, You will become timeless.

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

Do not seek water, get thirst.

My heart is so smallit’s almost invisible.How can You place such big sorrows in it?”Look,” He answered,”your eyes are even smaller,yet they behold the world.

It’s your road, and yours alone.others may walk it with you,but no one can walk it for you.

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.

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.

You think of yourselfas a citizen of the universe.You think you belong to this world of dust and matter.Out of this dustyou have created a personal image,and have forgottenabout the essence of your true origin

This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say.

If Light Is In Your HeartYou Will Find Your Way Home.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

The flower that does not smileat the branches withers.

You could string a hundred endless days together,My soul would find no comfort from this pain.You laugh at my tale? You may be educatedBut you haven’t learned to love till you’re insane

Is it really so that the one I love is everywhere?

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

Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor...

Dear soul, don’t set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself…!

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

Your faces are very beautiful,but they are wooden cages.You had better run from me.My words are fire.

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....

A Moment Of Happiness: A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I,...

Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

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

From “Wetness and Water”How does a part of the world leave the world?How can wetness leave water?Do not try to put out a fireby throwing on more fire.Do not wash a wound with blood.No matter...

The word grows mad on the fermentOf angry actions, the authorities can only inflictVisible punishments. Now regard with the unpracticedInner eye the unseen presence of Judgement thenYou will understand the nature of your soul’s torment

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

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone’s soul heal. Walk out of your house like a shepherd.

My friend, you thought you lost Him;that all your life you’ve been separated from Him.Filled with wonder, you’ve always looked outside for Him,and haven’t searched within your own house.

I love my friendsneither with my heart nor with my mind. Just in case…Heart might stop. Mind can forget. I love them with my soul. Soul never stops or forgets.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

I made an oath to myself:as long as I liveas long as my soul remains in this bodyI won’t deviate from the right waybut later I looked to my left and then to my rightand...

The world’s flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel:eat less of it, for it is full of fire.Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest,but its smoke becomes visible in the end.

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.