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Listen To Presences Inside Poems, Let Them Take You Where They Will. Follow Those Private Hints, And Never Leave The Premises.

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Most People Guard Against Going Into The Fire, And So End Up In It.

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What You Are Seeking Is Also Seeking You.

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.

Pull The Thorn Of Existence Out Of The Heart! Fast! For When You Do, You Will See Thousands Of Rose Gardens In Yourself.

I Love My Friends Neither 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.

In The Garden I See Only Your Face From Trees And Blossoms I Inhale Only Your Fragrance.

The Day You Were Born, A Ladder Was Set Up To Help You Escape This World.

Sit With Lovers And Choose Their State. Do Not Stay Long With Those Who Are Not Living In The Heart.

Be With Those Who Help Your Being.

Behead Yourself!... Dissolve Your Whole Body Into Vision: Become Seeing, Seeing, Seeing!

I Am Not From East Or West Not Up From The Ground Or Out Of The Ocean My Place Is Placeless A Trace Of The Traceless I Belong To The Beloved

Hall Of Love Has Ten Thousand Swords. Don't Be Afraid To Use One.

Seek The Wisdom That Will Untie Your Knot. Seek The Path That Demands Your Whole Being.

This Is Love: To Fly Toward A Secret Sky

Tear Off The Mask. Your Face Is Glorious

Many Of The Faults You See In Others, Dear Reader, Are Your Own Nature Reflected In Them.

Birdsong Brings Relief To My Longing. I Am Just As Ecstatic As They Are, But With Nothing To Say.

Body Of Earth, Don't Talk Of Earth Tell The Story Of Pure Mirrors The Creator Has Given You This Splendor-- Why Talk Of Anything Else?

The Dark Thought, The Shame, The Malice, Meet Them At The Door Laughing, And Invite Them In.

If You Love Someone, You Are Always Joined With Them--in Joy, In Absence, In Solitude, In Strife.

If You Love Someone

Love Is The Ark Appointed For The Righteous, Which Annuls The Danger And Provides A Way Of Escape. Sell Your Cleverness And Buy Bewilderment. Cleverness Is Mere Opinion, Bewilderment Intuition.

Close Both Eyes To See With The Other Eye.

Spiritual Growth

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

On This Path Let The Heart Be Your Guide.

Whether One Moves Slowly Or With Speed, The One Who Is A Seeker Will Be A Finder.

No Mirror Ever Became Iron Again; No Bread Ever Became Wheat; No Ripened Grape Ever Became Sour Fruit. Mature Yourself And Be Secure From A Change For The Worse. Become The Light.

Let Your Teacher Be Love Itself.

He Has Afflicted You From Every Direction In Order To Pull You Back To The Directionless.

Where You Are, Whatever Your Condition Is; Always Try To Be A Lover.

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

Behind Every Atom Of This World Hides An Infinite Universe.

I Searched For God And Found Only Myself. I Searched For Myself And Found Only God.

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

Love And Lover Live In Eternity. Other Desires Are Substitutes For That Way Of Being.

I Saw Many Humans On Whom There Were No Clothes. I Saw Many Clothes In Which There Were No Humans.

To Live Without You Is To Be Robbed Of Love And What Is Life Without It? To Live Without You Is Death To Me, My Love But Some Call It Life.

When Inward Tenderness Finds The Secret Hurt, Pain Itself Will Crack The Rock And Ah! Let The Soul Emerge.

The Day Is Conscious Of Itself.

There Is A Light Seed Grain Inside. You Fill It With Yourself, Or It Dies.

Those Loves Which Are For The Sake Of A Colour Are Not Love. In The End They Are A Disgrace.

Oh! Joy For He Who Has Escaped From This World Of Perfumes And Color! For Beyond These Colors And These Perfumes, These Are Other Colors In The Heart And The Soul.

Pure Souls, Didn’t I Tell You Not To Be Seduced By This Colorful World For I Am The Ultimate Painter.

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.

The Armies Of The Day Have Chased The Army Of The Night, Heaven And Earth Are Filled With Purity And Light.

God Picks Up The Reed-flute World And Blows. Each Note Is A Need Coming Through One Of Us, A Passion, A Longing Pain. Remember The Lips Where The Wind-breath Originated, And Let Your Note Be Clear. Don't Try To End It. Be Your Note.

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

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

The Fault Is In The One Who Blames. Spirit Sees Nothing To Criticize.

God's Purpose For Man Is To Acquire A Seeing Eye And An Understanding Heart.

Nothing Can Help Me But That Beauty. There Was A Dawn I Remember When My Soul Heard Something From Your Soul. I Drank Water From Your Spring And Felt The Current Take Me.

The World Is A Playground, And Death Is The Night.

No One Looks Back And Regrets Leaving This World. What's Regretted Is How Real We Thought It Was.

Set Your Life On Fire. Seek Those Who Fan Your Flames

Make Peace With The Universe. Take Joy In It.

To Praise Is To Praise How One Surrenders To The Emptiness.

Brother, Stand The Pain. Escape The Poison Of Your Impulses. The Sky Will Bow To Your Beauty, If You Do. Learn To Light The Candle. Rise With The Sun. Turn Away From The Cave Of Your Sleeping. That Way A Thorn Expands To A Rose.

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.

There Is A Secret Medicine Given Only To Those Who Hurt So Hard They Can't Hope. The Hopers Would Feel Slighted If They Knew.

When Water Is Still Like A Mirror It Can Behold The Moon.

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

Break Your Pitcher Against A Rock. We Don't Need Any Longer To Haul Pieces Of The Ocean Around.

This Is What Love Does And Continues To Do. It Tastes Like Honey To Adults And Milk To Children.

Once You Conquer Your Selfish Self, All Your Darkness Will Change To Light.

The Pure Heart Is A Spotless Mirror In Which Images Of Infinite Beauty Are Reflected.

Infinite Beauty

There Is No Room For Hypocrisy. Why Use Bitter Soup For Healing When Sweet Water Is Everywhere?

If I Gaze At My Beloved She May Feel Embarrassed And If I Do Not, She Will Feel Neglected. I Can See The Stars Reflecting In The Calm Water Of Her Face But If I Look Away I Lose My Clarity.

Look At Love With The Eyes Of Your Heart.

Don't Look For Love, Look For The One Looking For Love.

Looking For Love

I Merged So Completely With Love, And Was So Fused, That I Became Love And Love Became Me.

This That Is Tormented And Very Tired, Tortured With Restraints Like A Madman, This Heart.

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 A Different Doctrine And Practice, But There's Really Only One Work.

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.

Everyone Turns Toward Someone. Look For One Scarred By The King's Polo Stick.

You Are As You Are, An Indescribable Message On The Air.

Whenever They Rebuild An Old Building, They Must First Of All Destroy The Old One.

Lightning, Your Presence From Ground To Sky, No One Knows What Becomes Of Me, When You Take Me So Quickly.

Weep Like The Waterwheel, That Green Herbs May Spring Up From The Courtyard Of Your Soul. If You Wish For Tears, Have Mercy On One Who Sheds Tears; If You Wish Mercy, Show Mercy To The Weak.

Every Love Outside Of His Love, Is Pain.

What I Had Thought Of Before As God, I Met Today In A Human Being.

Move Outside The Tangle Of Fear-thinking. Live In Silence.

You Are Dreaming Your Thirst When The Water You Want Is Inside The Big Vein On Your Neck.

Indeed Envy Is A Defect; Worse Than Any Other.

People Are Distracted By Objects Of Desire, And Afterward Repent Of The Lust They've Indulged, Because They Have Indulged With A Phantom And Are Left Even Farther From Reality Than Before.

I Am A Drunkard From Another Kind Of Tavern. I Dance To A Silent Tune. I Am The Symphony Of Stars.

Let Yourself Be Silently Drawn By The Stronger Pull Of What You Really Love. In The Depths There Is A Spring With All The Water Your Heart Is Thirsty For.

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

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.

Since In Order To Speak, One Must First Listen, Learn To Speak By Listening.

The Wound Is The Place Where The Light Enters You.

The Wine Of This Fleeting World Caused Your Head To Ache.

Every Tree, Every Growing Thing As It Grows, Says This Truth, You Harvest What You Sow.

What You're Seeking Is Seeking You.

There Are Many Ways To The Divine. I Have Chosen The Ways Of Song, Dance, And Laughter.

What Can I Do My Friends, If I Do Not Know? I Am Neither Christian Nor Jew, Nor Muslim Nor Hindu. What Can I Do? What Can I Do? Not Of The East, Nor Of The West, Nor Of The Land, Nor Of The Sea, Not Of Nature's Essence, Nor Of Circling Heavens. What Could I Be?

As Long As An Angel Is Not Annihilated, It Is A Devil.

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

The Intellectual Quest Is Exquisite Like Pearls And Coral, But It Is Not The Same As The Spiritual Quest. The Spiritual Quest Is On Another Level Altogether, Spiritual Wine Has A Subtler Taste. The Intellect And The Senses Investigate Cause And Effect. The Spiritual Seeker Surrenders To The Wonder.

Many Have Been Led Astray By The Qur'an: By Clinging To That Rope Many Have Fallen Into The Well. There Is No Fault In The Rope, O Perverse Man, For It Was You Who Had No Desire To Reach The Top.

Let The Waters Settle And You Will See The Moon And The Stars Mirrored In Your Own Being.

The Chess Master Says Nothing, Other Than Moving The Silient Chess Piece.

For Without You, I Swear, The Town Has Become Like A Prison To Me. Distraction And The Mountain And The Desert, All I Desire.

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.

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

Although You See The Pit, You Cannot Avoid It.

Someday Our Souls Will Be One And Our Union Will Be Forever. I Know That Everything I Give You Comes Back To Me. So I Give You My Life , Hoping That You Will Come Back To Me.

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 That Love That Will Raise The Dead. I Want That Love That Lifts Us To Ecstasy. I Want That Love That Is The Silence Of Eternity.

I Don’t Know Why; When I Look At You, I See Myself

Your Way Begins At The Other Side. Become The Sky. Take An Axe To The Prison Wall. Escape. Walk Out Like Someone Suddenly Born Into Color. Do It Now.

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, So Don't. You Have Wings. Learn To Use Them And Fly.

How Could You Reach The Pearl By Only Looking At The Sea? If You Seek The Pearl, Be A Diver: The Diver Needs Several Qualities: He Must Trust His Rope And His Life To The Friend's Hand, He Must Stop Breathing, And He Must Jump.

Discipline Enabled Heaven To Be Filled With Light; Discipline Enabled The Angels To Be Immaculate And Holy.

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.

Free Of Who I Was, Free Of Presence, Free Of Dangerous Fear, Hope, Free Of Mountainous Wanting.

If You Dig A Pit For Others To Fall Into, You Will Fall Into It Yourself.

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

How Did You Get Here? Close Your Eyes . . . And Surrender!

Whoever Acts With Respect Will Get Respect.

Goodbyes Are Only For Those Who Love With Their Eyes. Because For Those Who Love With Heart And Soul There Is No Such Thing As Separation.

Beauty Surrounds Us, But Usually We Need To Be Walking In A Garden To Know It.

Looking At My Life I See That Only Love Has Been My Soul’s Companion From Deep Inside My Soul Cries Out: Do Not Wait, Surrender For The Sake Of Love.

How Should Spring Bring Forth A Garden On Hard Stone? Become Earth, That You May Grow Flowers Of Many Colors. For You Have Been Heart-breaking Rock. Once, For The Sake Of Experiment, Be Earth!

The Waterwheel Accepts Water And Turns And Gives It Away, Weeping.

No More Words. Hear Only The Voice Within.

The Real Beloved Is That One Who Is Unique, Who Is Your Beginning And Your End.

Live Life As If Its Rigged In Your Favor.

Be Kind To Yourself, Dear - To Our Innocent Follies. Forget Any Sounds Or Touch You Knew That Did Not Help You Dance. You Will Come To See That All Evolves Us.

Yesterday Was Glory And Joy. Today, A Blackened Burn Everywhere. On The Record Of My Life, These Two Days Will Be Put Down As One

A Lover Is Always Accused Of Something. But When He Finds His Love, Whatever Was Lost In The Looking Comes Back Completely Changed.

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

You've Come To Know The Fortunate And The Inauspicious Stars, But You Don't Know Whether You Yourself Are Fortunate Or Lucky.

Things Are Such That Someone Lifting A Cup, Or Watching The Rain, Petting A Dog, Or Singing, Just Singing - Could Be Doing As Much For This Universe As Anyone.

Tomorrow You'll Be Brave, You Say? Fool! Dive Today.

Let Silence Speak To You About The Secrets Of The Universe.

You Are Not One You Are A Thousand. Just Light Your Lantern.

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

From The Moment You Entered This World Of Existence, A Ladder Was Put In Front Of You So You Could Escape.

My Soul Is Naked. It Wears The Transparent Garment Of Love.

I Have Lived On The Lip Of Insanity, Wanting To Know Reasons, Knocking On A Door. It Opens. I've Been Knocking From The Inside.

I Said, O Love, Tell Me This: Does The Lord Know You Are Treating Me This Way? Love Said To Me, Yes He Does, Just Be Totally… Totally… Silent

The Miracle Of Jesus Is Himself, Not What He Said Or Did About The Future. Forget The Future. I'd Worship Someone Who Could Do That.

We Are As The Flute, And The Music In Us Is From Thee; We Are As The Mountain And The Echo In Us Is From Thee.

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

Are You Fleeing From Love Because Of A Single Humiliation? What Do You Know Of Love Except The Name? Love Has A Hundred Forms Of Pride And Disdain, And Is Gained By A Hundred Means Of Persuasion. Since Love Is Loyal, It Purchases One Who Is Loyal: It Has No Interest In A Disloyal Companion. The Human Being Resembles A Tree; Its Root Is A Covenant With God: That Root Must Be Cherished With All One's Might.

This Whole Universe Is But A Drop Of His Beauty!

No Better Love Than Love With No Object

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.

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

Whatever Posessions And Objects Of Its Desires The Lower Self May Obtain, It Hangs On To Them, Refusing To Let Them Go Out Of Greed For More, Or Out Of Fear Of Poverty And Need.

Why, When God's World Is So Big, Did You Fall Asleep In A Prison, Of All Places?

I Have Put Duality Away. I Have Seen The Two Worlds Are One.

Where, With Your One Rose You Can Buy Hundreds Of Rose Gardens?

Let Yourself Be Silently Drawn By The Strange Pull Of What You Really Love. It Will Not Lead You Astray.

Inside Any Deep Asking Is The Answering.

Poetry Can Be Dangerous, Especially Beautiful Poetry, Because It Gives The Illusion Of Having Had The Experience Without Actually Going Through It.

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.

When We Talk About God, We’re Like A School Of Fish, Discussing The Possible Existence Of The Sea.

There Are Lovers Content With Longing. I’m Not One Of Them.

Half-heartedness Doesn't Reach Into Majesty. You Set Out To Find God, But Then You Keep Stopping For Long Periods At Meanspirited Roadhouses.

Even Though In The World You Are The Most Learned Scholar Of The Time, Behold The Vanishing Of This World And This Time!

Open Your Eyes, For This World Is Only A Dream.

Take Sips Of This Pure Wine Being Poured. Don't Mind That You've Been Given A Dirty Cup.

Love Is The Soul's Light, The Taste Of Morning, No Me, No We, No Claim Of Being.

The Earth Turns To Gold, In The Hands Of The Wise.

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

May These Vows And This Marriage Be Blessed.

I Am Not This Hair, I Am Not This Skin, I Am The Soul That Lives Within.

Beyond Ideas, There's A Field. Will You Meet Me There?

Your Acts Of Kindness Are Iridescent Wings Of Divine Love, Which Linger And Continue To Uplift Others Long After Your Sharing.

Everyone Is Overridden By Thoughts; That's Why They Have So Much Heartache And Sorrow.

I Am Burning. If Anyone Lacks Tinder, Let Him Set His Rubbish Ablaze With My Fire.

The Lion Is Most Handsome When Looking For Food.

This Torture Why Should We Tell You Our Love Stories When You Spill Them Together Like Blood In The Dirt? Love Is A Pearl Lost On The Ocean Floor, Or A Fire We Can’t See, But How Does Saying That Push Us Through The Top Of The Head Into The Light Above The Head? Love Is Not An Iron Pot, So This Boiling Energy Won’t Help. Soul, Heart, Self. Beyond And Within Those Is One Saying, How Long Before I’m Free Of This Torture!

Even When Tied In A Thousand Knots, The String Is Still But One.

Innumerable Changes Of Moods Are Yours, And They Are Uncontrolled By You. If You Knew Their Origin, You Would Be Able To Dominate Them. If You Cannot Localize Your Own Changes, How Can You Localize That Which Formed You?

Let Lovers Be Crazy, Disgraceful And Wild Those Who Fret About Such Things Aren’t In Love.

People Who Repress Desires Often Turn, Suddenly, Into Hypocrites.

The Prophets Accept All Agony And Trust It For The Water Has Never Feared The Fire.

Beauty Is The Garden Scent Of Roses, Murmuring Water Flowing Gently...can Words Describe The Indescribable?

Your Defects Are The Ways That Glory Gets Manifested ... That's Where The Light Enters You.

I Am Smiling At Myself Today There's No Wish Left In This Heart Or Perhaps There Is No Heart Left Free From All Desire I Sit Quietly Like Earth My Silent Cry Echoes Like Thunder Throughout The Universe I Am Not Worried About It I Know It Will Be Heard By No One Except Me.

If My Head Holds One Thought Wise And Clear, It's You. Poor As I Am, What I Hold Dear Is You. No Matter How I See Myself, I'm Nothing ... Anything I Am Entirely Is You!

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

Put Your Thoughts To Sleep, Do Not Let Them Cast A Shadow Over The Moon Of Your Heart. Let Go Of Thinking.

The Intellectual Is Always Showing Off, The Lover Is Always Getting Lost. The Intellectual Runs Away. Afraid Of Drowning; The Whole Business Of Love Is To Drown In The Sea. Intellectuals Plan Their Repose; Lovers Are Ashamed To Rest. The Lover Is Always Alone. Even Surrounded By People; Like Water And Oil, He Remains Apart. The Man Who Goes To The Trouble Of Giving Advice To A Lover Get Nothing. He's Mocked By Passion. Love Is Like Musk. It Attracts Attention. Love Is A Tree, And The Lovers Are Its Shade.

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.

Through Love, All Pain Will Turn To Medicine.

Only Love Itself Can Explain Love And Lovers.

Allah Made The Illusion Look Real And The Real An Illusion. He Concealed The Sea And Made The Foam Visible, The Wind Invisible, And The Dust Manifest. You See The Dust Whirling, But How Can The Dust Rise By Itself? You See The Foam, But Not The Ocean. Invoke Him With Deeds, Not Words; For Deeds Are Real And Will Save You In The Infinite-life.

Pale Sunlight, Pale The Wall. Love Moves Away. The Light Changes I Need More Grace Than I Thought.

In The Orchard And Rose Garden I Long To See Your Face. In The Taste Of Sweetness I Long To Kiss Your Lips. In The Shadows Of Passion I Long For Your Love.

Every Step I Take Is A Blessing.

Love Is An Emotion. Totally Silent And Inexpressible With Words.

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.

I Saw Grief Drinking A Cup Of Sorrow And Called Out, 'it Tastes Sweet, Does It Not?' 'you've Caught Me,' Grief Answered, 'and You've Ruined My Business. How Can I Sell Sorrow, When You Know It's A Blessing?

Although I May Try To Describe Love, When I Experience It, I Am Speechless.

Light And Shadow

Do Not Sit Long With A Sad Friend. When You Go To A Garden Do You Look At The Weeds? Spend More Time With The Roses And Jasmines.

Contain All Human Faces In Your Own Without Any Judgment Of Them

Be Drunk With Love, For Love Is All That Exists.

My Boat Strikes Something Deep. At First Sounds Of Silence, Waves. Nothing Has Happened; Or Perhaps Everything Has Happened. And I Am Sitting In My New Life.

Only From The Heart Can You Touch The Sky.

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