Great Throughts Treasury

"Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home."

"Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises"

"Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open? Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."

"Why are you so busy with this or that or good or bad pay attention to how things blend why talk about all the known and the unknown see how unknown merges into the known why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last."

"Whoever gives reverence receives reverence."

"Wisdom is like the rain. Its source is limitless, but it comes down according to the season."

"Why am I seeking? I am the same as He. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself."

"Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God."

"Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?"

"Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?"

"With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?"

"Why should I stay at the bottom of a well, when a strong rope is in my hand?"

"Without cause God gave us Being; without cause, give it back again."

"Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs; touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation."

"Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one."

"Work on your strong qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over."

"Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words."

"Would you become a pilgrim on the road of love? The first condition is that you make yourself humble as dust and ashes."

"Work. Keep digging your well. Don't think about getting off from work. Water is there somewhere. Submit to daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there."

"Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"You already have the precious mixture that will make you well. Use it."

"You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go, words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean"

"You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel your own emotion"

"You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky."

"You are a ruby in the heart of granite, how long will you try to deceive us? We can see the truth in your eyes, so come, come, return to the root of the root of your own self..."

"You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?"

"You are not one; you are a Thousand. Just Light your Lantern."

"You are an ocean of knowledge, hidden in a dew drop."

"You are a volume in the divine book A mirror to the power that created the universe Whatever you want, ask it of yourself Whatever you’re looking for can only be found Inside of you"

"You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."

"You are the deep innerness of all things, the last word that can be spoken. To each of us you reveal yourselves differently: to the ship as coastline, to the shore as ship."

"You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains."

"You are the truth from foot to brow. Now what else would you like to know?"

"You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart!"

"You are the drop, and the ocean you are kindness, you are anger, you are sweetness, you are poison."

"You have been a prisoner of a little pond I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me. Leave this world of ignorance."

"You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment."

"You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone, ‘Has anyone seen my horse?’"

"You had better run from me. My words are fire."

"You have read about the inspired spring. Drink from there. Be companions with those whose lips are wet with that water. Others, even though they may be your father or your mother, they’re your enemies. Leave, before they kill you! The pathless path opens whenever you genuinely say, There is no Reality but God. There is only God.’"

"You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so you have always been connected to me. Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest. I am life itself."

"You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange."

"You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity. Disharmony prevails when You confuse lust with love, while The distance between the two is endless."

"You lack a foot to travel? Then journey into yourself and like a mine of rubies receive the sunbeams print. Out of yourself such a journey will lead you to yourself, it leads to transformation of dust into pure gold!"

"You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open."

"You may make a jewelry flower out of gold and rubies and emeralds, but it will not have fragrance."

"You personify God's message. You reflect the King's face. There is nothing in the universe that you are not Everything you want, look for it within yourself you are that."

"You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep."

"You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it."