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No More Words. In The Name Of This Place We Drink In With Our Breathing, Stay Quiet Like A Flower. So The Nightbirds Will Start Singing.

Whatever Happens To You, Don't Fall In Despair. Even If All The Doors Are Closed, A Secret Path Will Be There For You That No One Knows. You Can't See It Yet But So Many Paradises Are At The End Of This Path...be Grateful! It Is Easy To Thank After Obtaining What You Want, Thank Before Having What You Want.

By The Mercy Of Allah Paradise Has Eight Doors One Of Those Is The Door Of Repentance, Child. All The Others Are Sometimes Open, Sometimes Shut, But The Door Of Repentance Is Never Closed. Come Seize The Opportunity: The Door Is Open; Carry Your Baggage There At Once.

Counterfeiters Exist Because There Is Such A Thing As Real Gold.

Your Heart Mirrors Not His Love, Rusty With Your Sins It Is, Remove This Rust And You Shall Perceive How Glorious He Is.

If You Desire Healing, Let Yourself Fall Ill Let Yourself Fall Ill.

The Miracle Of Jesus Is Himself, Not What He Said Or Did.

My Soul Is My Guide, For My Soul Is Of That Abode. I Will Not Speak Of The Earthly. I Am Of The Unknown

I Am A Bird Of God's Garden And I Do Not Belong To This Dusty World For A Day Or Two They Have Put Me Here In This Cage Of My Own Body I Did Not Come Here Of My Own I Will Not Return Of My Own To My Own Country.

Like The Birds Of The Sea, Men Come From The Ocean-the Ocean Of The Soul. How Could This Bird, Born From That Sea, Make His Dwelling Here?

In The Silence Of Love You Will Find The Spark Of Life.

Submit To Love Without Thinking

The Rose Does Best As A Rose. Lilies Make The Best Lilies. And Look! You - The Best You Around!

Are You Searching For The River Of Your Soul? Then Come Out Of Your Prison. Leave The Stream And Join The River That Flows Into The Ocean.

I Am So Small I Can Hardly Be Seen. How Can This Great Love Be Inside Me? Look At Your Eyes. They Are Small, But They See Enormous Things.

Embark On The Journey Of Love. It Takes You From Yourself To Yourself.

Dance Where You Can Break Yourself Up To Pieces And Totally Abandon Your Worldly Passions.

When I Am Silent, I Fall Into The Place Where Everything Is Music.

Do Not Feel Lonely, The Entire Universe Is Inside You. Stop Acting So Small. You Are The Universe In Ecstatic Motion. Set Your Life On Fire. Seek Those Who Fan Your Flames.

Although You Appear In Earthly Form Your Essence Is Pure Consciousness. You Are The Fearless Guardian Of Divine Light.

We Began As Mineral. We Emerged Into Plant Life, And Into The Animal State, And Then Into Being Human, And Always We Have Forgotten Our Former States, Except In Early Spring When We Slightly Recall Being Green Again.

Love, The Supreme Musician, Is Always Playing In Our Souls

Try Not To Resist The Changes That Come Your Way. Instead Let Life Live Through You. And Do Not Worry That Your Life Is Turning Upside Down. How Do You Know That The Side You Are Used To Is Better Than The One To Come?

I Am Neither Of The East Nor Of The West, No Boundaries Exist Within My Breast.

Because Of Your Love I Have Broken With My Past

Your Eyes Are Even Smaller, Yet They Behold The World.

And If One Of Our Instruments Breaks, It Doesn't Matter. We Have Fallen Into The Place Where Everything Is Music.

Love Cannot Be Described. It Must Be Tasted.

Ground Yourself, Strip Yourself Down, To Blind Loving Silence

Seek The Sound That Never Ceases. Seek The Sun That Never Sets.

Let Your Throat-song Be Clear And Strong Enough To Make An Emperor Fall Full-length Suppliant, At The Door.

There Is Only One Search: Wandering... No Dogma And No Heresy.

Close The Language-door, And Open The Love-window

I Am The Servant Of The Qur'an As Long As I Have Life. I Am The Dust On The Path Of Muhammad, The Chosen One.

Look Past Your Thoughts, So You May Drink The Pure Nectar Of This Moment.

Love Is From The Infinite, And Will Remain Until Eternity. The Seeker Of Love Escapes The Chains Of Birth And Death. Tomorrow, When Resurrection Comes, The Heart That Is Not In Love Will Fail The Test.

Doing As Others Told Me, I Was Blind. Coming When Others Called Me, I Was Lost. Then I Left Everyone, Myself As Well. Then I Found Everyone, Myself As Well.

Lovers Don't Finally Meet Somewhere. They're In Each Other All Along.

The Satiated Person And The Hungry One Do Not See The Same Thing When They Look Upon A Loaf Of Bread.

I Wonder From These Thousand Of "me's", Which One Am I? Listen To My Cry, Do Not Drown My Voice I Am Completely Filled With The Thought Of You. Don't Lay Broken Glass On My Path I Will Crush It Into Dust. I Am Nothing, Just A Mirror In The Palm Of Your Hand, Reflecting Your Kindness, Your Sadness, Your Anger. If You Were A Blade Of Grass Or A Tiny Flower I Will Pitch My Tent In Your Shadow. Only Your Presence Revives My Withered Heart. You Are The Candle That Lights The Whole World And I Am An Empty Vessel For Your Light. Rumi - "hidden Music

Whenever Sorrow Comes, Be Kind To It. For God Has Placed A Pearl In Sorrow’s Hand.

All The Particles Of The World Are In Love And Looking For Lovers.

Looking For Love

True Beauty Is A Ray That Springs From The Sacred Depths Of The Soul, And Illuminates The Body, Just As Life Springs From The Kernel Of A Stone And Gives Colour And Scent To A Flower.

Whatever Lifts The Corners Of Your Mouth, Trust That

Grace Comes To Forgive And Then Forgive Again.

There Is No Way Into Presence Except Through A Love Exchange.

Lovers Think They Are Looking For Each Other, But There Is Only One Search: Wandering This World Is Wandering That, Both Inside One Transparent Sky. In Here There Is No Dogma And No Heresy.

Be Patient Where You Sit In The Dark. The Dawn Is Coming

There Is A Soul Within The Soul. Seek It Out. There Is A Treasure In Your Mountain. Seek It Out. A Mystic In Motion, If That's What You Are, Don't Seek Out There; Seek Inside.

I Have Been So Naughted In Thy Love's Existence That My Nonexistence Is A Thousand Times Sweeter Than My Existence

A Little While Alone In Your Room Will Prove More Valuable Than Anything Else That Could Ever Be Given You.

The Branch Might Seem Like The Fruit's Origin: In Fact, The Branch Exist Because Of The Fruit.

Submit To A Daily Practice. Your Loyalty To That Is A Ring At The Door. Keep Knocking, And The Joy Inside Will Eventually Open A Window And Look Out To See Who's There.

Let A Thousand Wrangling Desires Become One Love.

Darkness May Hide The Trees And The Flowers From The Eyes But It Cannot Hide Love From The Soul.

It Is God's Kindness To Terrify You In Order To Lead You To Safety.

Those Who Practice Love Have Neither Religion Or Status.

Never Be Without Remembrance Of Him, For His Remembrance Gives Strength And Wings To The Bird Of The Spirit.

Yesterday I Was Clever, So I Wanted To Change The World. Today I Am Wise, So I Am Changing Myself.

Make Everything In You An Ear, Each Atom Of Your Being, And You Will Hear At Every Moment What The Source Is Whispering To You...you Are -we All Are-the Beloved Of The Beloved, And In Every Moment, In Every Event Of Your Life , The Beloved Is Whispering To You Exactly What You Need To Hear And Know. Who Can Ever Explain This Miracle? It Simply Is.

But Listen To Me. For One Moment Quit Being Sad. Hear Blessings Dropping Their Blossoms Around You.

Open Your Arms If You Want The Beloved's Embrace.

Life S Picture Is Constantly Undergoing Change. The Spirit Beholds A New World Every Moment.

Through Your Love Existence And Nonexistence Merge. All Opposites Unite. All That Is Profane Becomes Sacred Again.

Every Object, Every Being...is A Jar Full Of Delight.

All Your Restlessness Is Out Of Your Desire For Stillness Just Desire Restlessly, Then, Love Will Fill And Still You. All Your Unhealthiness Is Out Of Your Desire For Health, Just Abandon Health, Then, Even Poison Will Heal You.

Poems Reach Up Like Spindrift And The Edge Of Driftwood Along The Beach, Wanting! They Derive From A Slow And Powerful Root That We Can’t See. Stop The Words Now. Open The Window In The Center Of Your Chest, And Let The Spirits Fly In And Out.

The Rewards Of Life And Devotion To God Are Love And Inner Rapture, And The Capacity To Receive The Light Of God.

Devotion To God

What Is A Tiny Insignificant Seed That, When Spring Arrives, It Should Not Be Annihilated For A Tree To Arrive.

If All You Can Do Is Crawl, Start Crawling.

Do You Know What You Are? You Are A Manuscript Oƒ A Divine Letter. You Are A Mirror Reflecting A Noble Face. This Universe Is Not Outside Of You. Look Inside Yourself; Everything That You Want, You Are Already That.

In Silence There Is Eloquence.

Within Tears, Find Hidden Laughter Seek Treasures Amid Ruins, Sincere One.

The Lovers Of God Have No Religion But God Alone.

Tree Limbs Rise And Fall Like The Ecstatic Arms Of Those Who Have Submitted To The Mystical Life. Leaf Sounds Talk Together Like Poets Making Fresh Metaphors.

Die Happily And Look Forward To Taking Up A New And Better Form. Like The Sun, Only When You Set In The West Can You Rise In The East.

Beyond The Rightness Or Wrongness Of Things There Is A Field, I'll Meet You There

And Don't Think The Garden Loses Its Ecstasy In Winter. It's Quiet, But The Roots Are Down There Riotous.

The Time Has Come To Turn Your Heart Into A Temple Of Fire.

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We Are All Bathed In The Same Light.

There's No Cure, Except The Retreat Into Love, For The Suffering Of Subtly Afflicted Hearts.

Speak A New Language So That The World Will Be A New World.

The Lamps Are Different, But The Light Is The Same. One Matter, One Energy, One Light, One Light-mind, Endlessly Emanating All Things.

Rush Out In The Rain To Be Soaked With The Sky.

Conventional Opinion Is The Ruin Of Our Souls.

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With Each Passing Moment, A Soul Sets Off To Find Itself.

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Sing To Me In The Silence Of Your Heart And I Will Rise Up To Hear Your Triumphant Song.

I Learned That Every Mortal Will Taste Death. But Only Some Will Taste Life.

If You Knew The Secret Of Life, You Too Would Choose No Other Companion But Love.

I Am Sunlight Slicing The Dark.

The Soul: A Wide Listening Sky With Thousands Of Candles.

Not The Ones Speaking The Same Language, But The Ones Sharing The Same Feeling Understand Each Other.

Speaking The Same Language

Listen To The Unstruck Sounds, And What Sifts Through That Music.

Everything Is Soul And Flowering.

Love Is The Common Denominator That Unites All People Whatever Religion They Are.

If In Thirst You Drink Water From A Cup, You See God In It. Those Who Are Not In Love With God Will See Only Their Own Faces In It.

When Soul Rises Into Lips You Feel The Kiss You Have Wanted

If You Want Money More Than Anything, You'll Be Bought And Sold Your Whole Life.

In Fact, My Soul And Yours Are The Same, You Appear In Me, I In You.

Let Silence Take You To The Core Of Life.

I Am So Close, I May Look Distant. So Completely Mixed With You, I May Look Separate. So Out In The Open, I Appear Hidden. So Silent, Because I Am Constantly Talking With You.

The Whole Universe Is Contained Within A Single Human Being - You.

I Once Had A Thousand Desires. But In My One Desire To Know You All Else Melted Away.

If You Become A Helper Of Hearts, Springs Of Wisdom Will Flow From Your Heart.

Indeed Envy Is A Defect; Worse Than Any Other.

You Are Not Your Body; You Are The Eye. When You See The Spirit, You Are Free Of The Body. A Human Being Is An Eye – The Rest Is Just Flesh And Bones. Whatever Your Eye Sees, You Are That.

A Pure Heart, Open To The Light, Will Be Filled With The Elixir Of Truth.

My Dear Soul, Flee From The Worthless, Stay Close Only To Those With A Pure Heart. Like Attracts Like. A Crow Will Lead You To The Graveyard, A Parrot To A Lump Of Sugar.

Believe In Love's Infinite Journey, For It Is Your Own, For You Are Love. Love Is Life

Through Love, All Pain Will Turn To Medicine.

Trade Your Cleverness For Bewilderment.

We Should Ask God To Help Us Toward Manners. Inner Gifts Do Not Find Their Way To Creatures Without Just Respect.

You Have No Need To Travel Anywhere - Journey Within Yourself. Enter A Mine Of Rubies And Bathe In The Splendor Of Your Own Light.

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.

We Cannot Steal The Fire. We Must Enter It.

You Try To Be Faithful And Sometimes You're Cruel. You Are Mine. Then, You Leave. Without You, I Can't Cope. And When You Take The Lead, I Become Your Footstep. Your Absence Leaves A Void. Without You, I Can't Cope. You Have Disturbed My Sleep, You Have Wrecked My Image. You Have Set Me Apart. Without You, I Can't Cope.

The Intelligent Desire Self-control; Children Want Candy.

Don't See Yourself As A Body Of Clay; See Yourself As A Mirror Reflecting The Divine Beauty.

Peace Is Wonderful, But / Ecstatic Dance Is More Fun / And Less Narcissistic

Gamble Everything For Love, If You Are A True Human Being. If Not, Leave This Gathering. Half-heartedness Doesn’t Reach Into Majesty.

The World Is A Mountain, In Which Your Words Are Echoed Back To You.

I Found The Divine Within My Heart.

Self Reflection

There Is A Force Within That Gives You Life. Seek That.

The Soul Which Cannot Endure Fire And Smoke Won't Find The Secret.

This Is Now. Now Is, All There Is. Don't Wait For Then; Strike The Spark, Light The Fire.

Give Yourself Completely To The One You Call God. If You Are Not Doing It You Are Wasting Your Time Here.

Wasting Your Time

Load The Ship And Set Out. No One Knows For Certain Whether The Vessel Will Sink Or Reach The Harbor. Cautious People Say, 'i'll Do Nothing Until I Can Be Sure.' Merchants Know Better. If You Do Nothing, You Lose. Don't Be One Of Those Merchants Who Wont Risk The Ocean.

Awake Asleep Ought To Be With Us - So He May See Dreams In Wakefulness.

They Say There Is A Doorway From Heart To Heart, But What Is The Use Of A Door When There Are No Walls?

Love Is The Energizing Elixir Of The Universe, The Cause And Effect Of All Harmony.

This Is How I Would Die Into The Love I Have For You: As Pieces Of Cloud Dissolve In Sunlight.

Be Certain That In The Religion Of Love There Are No Believers And Unbelievers. Love Embraces All.

Spirit, Find Your Way, In Seeking Lowness Like A Stream.

Never Lose Hope, My Heart, Miracles Dwell In The Invisible. If The Whole World Turns Against You Keep Your Eyes On The Friend.

Keep On Knocking 'til The Joy Inside Opens A Window Look To See Who's There

Cease Looking For Flowers! There Blooms A Garden In Your Own Home. While You Look For Trinkets The Treasure House Awaits You In Your Own Being.

Happy, Not From Anything That Happens. Warm, Not From Fire Or A Hot Bath. Light, I Register Zero On A Scale.

Your Way Begins At The Other Side. Become The Sky.

Bring Anger And Pride Under Your Feet, Turn Them Into A Ladder And Climb Higher.

Anyone Who Knows Me, Should Learn To Know Me Again; For I Am Like The Moon, You Will See Me With New Face Everyday.

Be With Those Who Help Your Being. Don't Sit With Indifferent People, Whose Breath Comes Cold Out Of Their Mouths.

God Has Planted In Your Heart [ ] The Desire To Search For Him. Do Not Look At Your Weaknesses But Focus On The Search. Every Seeker Is Worthy Of This Search. Strive To Redouble Your Efforts, So That Your Soul May Escape From This Material Prison.

Be Wild And Crazy And Drunk With Love, If You Are Too Careful, Love Will Not Find You.

If You Wish To Be A Mine Of Jewels, Open The Deep Ocean Within Your Heart.

Inside You There’s An Artist You Don’t Know About… Say Yes Quickly, If You Know, If You’ve Known It From Before The Beginning Of The Universe.

You've Been Walking The Ocean's Edge, Holding Up Your Robes To Keep Them Dry. You Must Dive Naked Under, And Deeper Under, A Thousand Times Deeper!

You The One In All, Say Who I Am. Say I Am You.

Discard Yourself And Thereby Regain Yourself. Spread The Trap Of Humility And Ensnare Love.

Be Relentless In Your Looking, Because You Are The One You Seek.

Keep Silence, Be Mute. If You Have Not Yet Become The Tongue Of God, Be An Ear!

Don't Be Sad! Because God Sends Hope In The Most Desperate Moments. Don't Forget, The Heaviest Rain Comes Out Of The Darkest Clouds.

There Is No Salvation For The Soul But To Fall In Love. Only Lovers Can Escape Out Of These Two Worlds. This Was Ordained In Creation. Only From The Heart Can You Reach The Sky: The Rose Of Glory Can Grow Only From The Heart.

Falling In Love

Smiles Come Best From Those Who Weep.

Love Is A River. Drink From It.

Speak Any Language, Turkish, Greek, Persian, Arabic, But Always Speak With Love

My Words Are Like A Ship, And The Sea Is Their Meaning. Come To Me And I Will Take You To The Depths Of Spirit.

They Are The Privileged Lovers Who Create A New World With Their Eyes Of Fiery Passion.

O Tongue You Are An Endless Treasure. O Tongue, You Are Also An Endless Disease.

Lovers Have Heartaches That Can't Be Cured By Drugs Or Sleep, Or Games, But Only By Seeing Their Beloved.

Rub Your Eyes, And Look Again At Love, With Love.

Close Both Eyes To See With The Other Eye.

Spiritual Growth

Silence Gives Answers.

You Don't Live On The Earth, You Are Passing Through It.

You Lack A Foot To Travel? Then Journey Into Yourself - That Leads To Transformation Of Dust Into Pure Gold.

We Are The Mirror, As Well As The Face In It. We Are Tasting The Taste Of Eternity This Minute. We Are Pain And What Cures Pain. We Are The Sweet Cold Water And The Jar That Pours. Soul Of The World, No Life, Nor World Remain, No Beautiful Women And Men Longing. Only This Ancient Love Circling The Holy Black Stone Of Nothing. Where The Lover Is The Loved, The Horizon And Everything Within It.

I Don't Want Learning, Or Dignity, Or Respectability. I Want This Music, And This Dawn, And The Warmth Of Your Cheek Against Mine.

There's Courage Involved If You Want To Become Truth.

Life Is Balance Of Holding On And Letting Go.

Don't Be Fooled By My Beauty - The Light Of My Face Comes From The Candle Of My Spirit.

Who Says The Eternal Being Does Not Exist? Who Says The Sun Has Gone Out? Someone Who Climbs Up On The Roof And Closes His Eyes Tight, And Says, I Don't See Anything.

Look For The Answer Inside Your Question.

Suddenly The Drunken Sweetheart Appeared Out Of My Door. She Drank A Cup Of Ruby Wine And Sat By My Side. Seeing And Holding The Lockets Of Her Hair My Face Became All Eyes, And My Eyes All Hands.

If Your Thought Is A Rose, You Are A Rose Garden; And If It Is A Thistle, You Are Fuel For The Fire.

What Draws Friends Together Does Not Conform To The Laws Of Nature.

I Am Pure Light, Not Just A Fistful Of Clay. The Shell Is Not Me, I Came As The Royal Pearl Within. Look At Me Not With Outward Eye But With Inward Vision Of The Heart; Follow Me There And See How Unencumbered We Become.

You Knock At The Door Of Reality. You Shake Your Thought Wings, Loosen Your Shoulders, And Open.

You Sit Here For Days Saying, This Is A Strange Business. You're The Strange Business. You Have The Energy Of The Sun In You, But You Keep Knotting It Up At The Base Of Your Spine.

That Hurt We Embrace Becomes Joy. Call It To Your Arms Where It Can Change.

Friends Are Enemies Sometimes, And Enemies Friends.

The Radiant One In Me Has Never Said A Word.

It's No Good Giving My Heart And My Soul Because You Already Have These. So I've Brought You A Mirror. Look At Yourself And Remember Me.

When I Run After What I Think I Want, My Days Are A Furnace Of Stress And Anxiety; If I Sit In My Own Place Of Patience, What I Need Flows To Me, And Without Pain. From This I Understand That What I Want Also Wants Me, Is Looking For Me And Attracting Me. There Is A Great Secret Here For Anyone Who Can Grasp It.

Sometimes You Hear A Voice Through The Door Calling You... This Turning Toward What You Deeply Love Saves You.

Shams, My Body Is A Candle Touched With Fire.

In This Mob Of I's Inside, Which One Is Me? Hear Me Out. I Know I'm Wandering, But Don't Start Putting A Lid On This Racket. No Telling What I'll Do Then. Every Moment I'm Thrown By Your Story. One Moment It's Happy, And I'm Singing. One Moment It's Sad, And I'm Weeping. It Turns Bitter, And I Pull Away. But Then You Spill A Little Grace, And Just Like That, I'm All Light. It's Not So Bad, This Arrangement, Actually.

Looking Up Gives Light, Although At First It Makes You Dizzy.

Positive Thinking

Love Alone Can Explain The Mysteries Of Love.

Mystery Of Love

Oh Soul! You Worry Too Much. Your Arms Are Heavy With Treasures Of All Kinds.

Love Is Our Steady Guide On This Road Full Of Hardships.

God Calls Himself "baseer" [observant], So That The Knowledge That He Is Watching You May Keep You From Sinning.

Woman Is The Light Of God.

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.

Until The Juice Ferments A While In The Cask, It Isn't Wine. If You Wish Your Heart To Be Bright, You Must Do A Little Work.

Nearness To God Is Common To Us All, Because We're All Created And Sustained By God, But Only The Authentically Noble Possess And Live That Nearness That's A Constant Upswelling Passion Of Love.

Close Your Eyes, Fall In Love, Stay There.

No Better Love Than Love With No Object

You Have Forgotten The One Who Doesn't Care About Ownership, Who Doesn't Try To Turn A Profit From Every Human Exchange.

There’s A Morning When Presence Comes Over Your Soul. You Sing Like A Rooster In Your Earth-colored Shape. Your Heart Hears And, No Longer Frantic, Begins To Dance.

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