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

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.

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.

all that was left to me was certain images and all of them spoke to me of the collapse of a cruel world and the slow construction in its stead of another world, equally cruel.

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

By looking to the Source, to the Creator of nature, we can remember how to navigate life organically, with less struggle, and less suffering.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

To be or not to be is not the question, the vital question is how to be and how not to be…

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

I love that feeling of, you know, we are women, we are so different, our imperfections are what make us unique and beautiful.

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

An artist must be very careful not to look for models. As soon as one artist takes another as model, he is lost. There is no other point of departure than reality.

How flattering,” I grumbled. “My soul glows.