Great Throughts Treasury

"The way the night knows itself with the moon, be that way with me. Or, alternately translated, Union is a raging river running toward the sea. Tonight the moon kisses the stars. O beloved, be like that to me."

"The way you make love is the way God will be with you."

"The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache."

"The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you."

"The world is a prison and we are the prisoners; dig a hole in the prison and let yourself out!"

"The whole universe is contained within a single human being – you."

"The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end."

"There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been."

"There are lovers content with longing. I’m not one of them."

"There are no edges to my loving now."

"There are no words between us now. Although it seems that talk, it is only Thy love overflowing from my cup."

"There came one and knocked at the door of the Beloved. And a voice answered and said, 'Who is there?' The lover replied, 'It is I.' 'Go hence,' returned the voice; 'there is no room within for thee and me.' Then came the lover a second time and knocked and again the voice demanded, 'Who is there?'"

"There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched. O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning fire of love. Love comes of its own free will; it can't be learned in any school."

"There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there."

"There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!"

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?"

"There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of that don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that."

"There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God."

"There is a passion in me, that doesn't long for anything, from another human being. I was given something else, a hat, to wear in both worlds. It fell off. It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter."

"There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye."

"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."

"There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you? You feel the separation from the Beloved. Invite Him to fill you up, embrace the fire."

"There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes."

"There is a way of breathing that's a shame and a suffocation and there's another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely."

"There is no end to the journey will end, never end... how beloved heart ever stop to open? ‘If you love me’ - he said – ‘There is only one to die. At any moment you will die in me, to be born again."

"There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?"

"There is some kiss we want with our whole lives, the touch of Spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild Darling! At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door, and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window."

"There is only one search: wandering... no dogma and no heresy."

"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 in."

"There is no worse sickness for the soul, O you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection. The heart and eyes must bleed a lot before self-complacency falls away."

"There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes."

"There's a field somewhere beyond all doubt and wrong doing."

"There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should...."

"There's courage involved if you want to become truth."

"There’s a morning when presence comes over your soul. You sing like a rooster in your earth-colored shape. Your heart hears and, no longer frantic, begins to dance."

"They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion. Oh God, let all lovers be content. Give them happy endings. Let their lives be celebrations. Let their hearts dance in the fire of your love."

"These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them."

"There's no cure, except the retreat into love, for the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts."

"They must not only understand the meaning of words written in the Koran is written below DUREN there a hidden meaning in the second layer of meaning no more new meaning, a dazzling view of the mind and meaning of the fourth, except for him, no one ever understood the greatness of God , which is no contestability in the Rapture count reached seven hidden meaning mean amazing story from the sky My friends, do not look at the Quran vol. For the devil, man is a piece of meat. Like Al-Quran is people, the form was born out of one's soul dwell in it."

"They are the chosen ones who have surrendered. Once they were particles of light now they are the radiant sun."

"They have left behind the world of deceitful games. They are the privileged lovers who create a new world with their eyes of fiery passion."

"They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?"

"This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives. This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth. To be one with the truth for just a moment, Is worth more than the world and life itself."

"Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core."

"Thirst drove me down to the water where I drank the moon's reflection."

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing you out for some new delight. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whomever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."

"This divine love, beckons us to a world beyond only lovers can see with their eyes of fiery passion."

"This drunkenness began in some other tavern. When I get back around to that place, I'll be completely sober."

"This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away."

"This is a gathering of Lovers. In this gathering there is no high, no low, no smart, no ignorant, no special assembly, no grand discourse, no proper schooling required. There is no master, no disciple. This gathering is more like a drunken party, full of tricksters, fools, mad men and mad women. This is a gathering of Lovers."