Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

Your love Should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger, Only to someone Who has the valor and daring To cut pieces of their soul off with a knife Then weave them into a blanket To protect you.

Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I would like to see you living in better conditions.

I am in love with every church And mosque And temple And any kind of shrine Because I know it is there That people say the different names Of the One God.

Your heart and my heart are very, very old friends.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light...And let it breathe.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

Everybody wants to manage me; management is a touchy situation.

From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.

One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.

Live on, survive, for the earth gives forth wonders. It may swallow your heart, but the wonders keep on coming. You stand before them bareheaded, shriven. What is expected of you is attention.

Those who carry the vessels of the Lord must be clean, must be holy (Isa. 52:11).

Today's youth have been cast in a condition of liminal drift, with no way of knowing whether it is transitory or permanent.