How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?

God sleeps in the rock, dreams in the plant, stirs in the animal, and awakens in man.

The ignorant one does not see his ignorance as he basks in its darkness; nor does the knowledgeable one see his own knowledge, for he basks in its light

I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.

If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer

There was a time, when I blamed my companion if his religion did not resemble mine. Now, however, my heart accepts every form....Love alone is my religion.

I am in love with no other than myself, and my very separation is my union... I am my beloved and my lover; I am my knight and my maiden.

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

I follow the Way of Love, and where Love's caravan takes its path, there is my religion, my faith.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

People say friends don't destroy each otherWhat do they know about friends?

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me…If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes.

Confidence is that internal alignment between what you know, what you believe and what you portray.

Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.

If you keep on dreaming, you'll never achieve anything. But if you start hardworking, I know you will do

And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.

I lose hope when the desire for life awakens within me; but I regain it whenever the longing for death comes upon me.

As a general remark, I would say we must move from the moral to the mystical life.

Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.

Without prayer there is no inward peace.