You yourself are what you are looking for. Raise your tent up to the sky. don't say: ''I can't''. Sure you can. Just do it!
Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear.
What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.
Lose yourself completely, return to the root of the root of your own soul.
Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
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 wound is the place where the Light enters you.
What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.
The cure for pain is in the pain.
Stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do.
Suffering is a gift. In it, lies the hidden mercy.
Look for the remedy inside the pain; since the rose came from the thorn, and the ruby from a stone.
Within tears, find hidden laughter. Seek treasures amid ruins.
When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near Truth.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Virtue cannot exist without temptation and difficulties to be overcome.
Truth lifts the heart, like water refreshes thirst.
Patience is the key to will. Listen to your heart.
The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities will find no rest.
A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.
Be with those who mix with God as honey blends with milk.
You are searching the world for treasures, but the real treasure is your own self.
Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, let it go. Don't even remember it!
Maybe you are searching among branches for what only appears in the roots.
When I think I am, I find myself worthless. When I think I am not, I find my value.
Prayer clears the mist and brings back peace to the soul.
Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window. Look out to see who's there.
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.
Why should I seek? I am the same as He. His essence speaks through me. I've been searching all along for myself!
If light is in your heart, you will find your way home.
Has anyone ever produced a mirror of mud and straw? Yet clean away the mud and straw, and a mirror might be revealed.
Do not be satisfied with the stories being told, unfold your own myth.
Be quiet and tear the thorn from your heart. Uncover in silence your soul's own rose garden.
The world is a prison and we are its prisoners. Dig a hole in the prison wall and let yourself out.
There is a desert I long to be walking, a wide emptiness: peace beyond any understanding of it.
Suffering is a gift. In it, lies a hidden mercy.
Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Lose yourself. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light, as radiant as the full moon.
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep.
The most beautiful place on Earth is the center of your heart. This is where Life begins.
Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.
Do you think I know what I'm doing? I know as much as a pen knows what it's writing, or a ball guessing where it's going next!
Isn't it time you turn your heart into a temple of fire?
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Oh heart, sit with someone who knows the heart; go under the tree which has fresh blossoms.
Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear, be lost in the call.
Kill the snake of desire (ego) in the beginning; or watch out: your snake will become a dragon.
Only from the heart can you touch the sky.
The world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of Love.
The whole business of love is to drown in the sea.
Watching my hand; He is moving it. Hearing my voice; He is speaking. Walking from room to room, no one is here but Him.
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
Since in order to speak, one must first listen, learn to speak by listening.
God has planted in your heart the desire to search Him. Don't look at your weaknesses, focus on the search.
Don't be fooled by my beauty. The light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit. All your suffering comes from desiring things that cannot be had. Stop desiring and you won't suffer.
This place is a dream. The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind. Why lay yourself on the torture's rack of the past and future?
Last night my Teacher taught me the lesson of spiritual poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing!
This is not reasonable. Reason cannot walk where this poem is going.
When ink joins a pen, then the blank paper can say something.
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.
Search, no matter the situation. O thirsty one, keep on searching for water of life. Finally the time will come when you will reach the spring.
When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant of hatred at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.
If we come to anger and battle, it is the reflection of His wrath. And if we come to peace and pardon, it is the reflection of Who are we in this complicated world. If we come to sleep, we are His drowsy ones. And if we come to wake, we are in His hands.
If every tip of every hair on me could speak, I still couldn't say my full gratitude. When self-interest appears, virtue hides; a hundred veils rise between the heart and the eye.
Watch the man beating the rug. He is not mad at it. He wants to loosen the layers of dirt.
In love with life, my soul lives with subtle passion; each day a different house each night under the stars.
Your heart is the true mosque. Within your body is the place to offer your salutations to the Lord.
Happy the soul that sees its own faults.
We live in the world of dimensions but we belong to the world of non-dimensions, so close one shop and open another.
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers can come up where you are.
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.
I am Lost in God and God is found in me.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
The lion who breaks the enemy's rank is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.
For would the sun not wander away in every night? How could at every morning the world be lighted up?
My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
Most minds do not live in the present and can stick a reasonable plan; most minds abruptly turn and undermine the chance of humming.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.
Remember: The way you make love is the way God will be with you.
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the Giver.
You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.
To be one with the Truth for just a moment, is worth more than the world and life itself.
With each passing moment a soul sets off to find itself.
Looking up gives light, although at first gives you dizzy.
We and our existences are really non-existence; you're the absolute being which manifests the perishable.
You are a lover of your own experience, not of me. You turn to me to feel your own emotion.
To deem oneself exalted is to claim co-partnership with God. As long as you have not died and become living through Him, you are a rebel seeking a realm for your co-partnership. When you have become living through Him, you are indeed He. That is utter Oneness, how could that be co-partnership?
In truth everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved: our seeking is His seeking and our words are His words.
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.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.
Launch me in the Sea of Love and let me sail.
Last night I learned how to be a lover of God: live in this material world and call nothing my own.
The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.
It's good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.
Someone asked, "What is the Way?" I said, "This way is to abandon desires."
Who knows his or her soul knows his or her Lord.
This ego is hell, and hell is a dragon not diminished by oceans of water. It drinks down the seven seas, yet the heat of that man-burner does not become less. It makes a morsel out of a world and gulps it down. Its belly keeps shouting: Is there any more?
What intellectual warp and woof keeps you wrapped in blindness.
All of these are symbols -- I mean that the other world keeps coming into this world. Like cream hidden in the soul of milk, No-place keeps coming into place. Like intellect concealed in blood and skin, the Trace-less keeps entering into traces. And from beyond the intellect, beautiful Love comes dragging its skirts, a cup of wine in its hand. And from beyond Love, that indescribable One who can only be called That, keeps coming.
All creatures, day and night, make manifestation of God. Some of them know what they are doing and are aware of their manifesting, while others are unaware. However it may be, God's manifestation is confirmed.
We and our existences are non existences. you're Absolute Existence showing yourself as perishable things.
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!
Don't look to anyone for your needs, for the One who created you, waters you.
I said, 'First I know you, then I die.' He said, 'For the one who knows Me, there is no dying'.
Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it.
Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens
in yourself.
You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.
The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.
Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself.
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
Look past your thoughts, so you may drink the pure nectar of this moment.
The soul has been given its own ears to hear things mind does not understand.
The Beloved is with you in the midst of your seeking! He holds your hand wherever you wander.
Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.
Look for the remedy inside the pain; since the rose came from the thorn and the ruby came from a stone.
Lose yourself. Lose yourself. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.
After despair, many hopes flourish just as after darkness, thousands of suns open and start to shine.
I want to sing like birds sing. Not worrying who listens or what they think.
Yesterday, I was so clever; I wanted to change the world. Today, I am wise; I will change myself.
I learned that every mortal will taste death. But only some will taste life.
Every step of the way I will walk with you and never leave you stranded.
Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has
polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.
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.
When one sense perceives the hidden, the invisible world becomes apparent to the whole.
When you lose all sense of self the bonds of a thousands chains will vanish.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Sufi mystics who are hidden in that ocean of light, their breath is all of darkness-shattering light.
When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.
I searched for God and found only myself. I searched for myself and found only God.
Bring anger and pride under your feet, turn them into a ladder and climb higher.
What a relief to be empty! Then God can live your life.
Don't you know yet? It is your light that lights the world.
And if He bars against you all ways and passages, He will show you a secret way, which no man knows.
Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to Light.
Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.
Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he's free.
We wander from room to room Hunting for the diamond necklace that is already around our neck!
Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.
To find the Beloved, you must become the Beloved.
Concern yourself not with the thief-like ego and its business. Whatever is not God's work is nothing, nothing!
Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but God. Poverty unlocks the door -- what a blessed key!
Lose yourself. Lose yourself. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.
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