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

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.

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.

The greater the injury, the greater the fun.

What will life be without music?

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

Dogs bark at a person whom they do not know.

Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

Enlarge the pupil of the eye, so that the body with its attendant personality will no longer obstruct the view. Immortality is then experienced as a present fact.

People read into the music. I have a feeling that they can believe that I'm trying to put some emotion forward. It's not just some technical exercise.

I dropped out of college and I'm pretty much a self-educated person, so a lot of my core belief system comes from life.

We not only respect babies, we demonstrate our respect every time we interact with them. Respecting a child means treating even the youngest infant as a unique human being, not as an object