Great Throughts Treasury

"Make everything in you an ear, each atom of your being, and you will hear at every moment what the Source is whispering to you…you are -we all are-the beloved of the beloved, and in every moment, in every event of your life, the Beloved is whispering to you exactly what you need to hear and know. Who can ever explain this miracle? It simply is."

"Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty."

"Make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more separation of you and your home God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive"

"Make yourself free from self at one stroke! Like a sword be without trace of soft iron; Like a steel mirror, scour off all rust with contrition."

"Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it."

"My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way."

"Men's minds perceive second causes, But only prophets perceive the action of the first cause."

"Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows."

"My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house."

"Many demolitions are actually renovations."

"My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold."

"My longing for you keeps me in this moment. My passion gives me courage."

"My heart sinks like a comb into wave after wave of your silky hair."

"My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call."

"Nearness to God is common to us all, because we're all created and sustained by God, but only the authentically noble possess and live that nearness that's a constant up-swelling passion of love."

"No one knows what makes the soul wake up so happy! Maybe a dawn breeze has blown the veil from the face of God."

"No prayer is complete without presence."

"Not only the thirsty seek the water, the water as well seeks the thirsty."

"My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

"Never lose hope, my heart, miracles dwell in the invisible. If the whole world turns against you keep your eyes on the Friend."

"Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?"

"No end, no end to the journey no end, no end never become the sky take an axe to the prison wall, escape walk out like someone suddenly born into color do it now ."

"No longer a stranger, you listen all day to these crazy love-words. Like a bee you fill hundreds of homes with honey, though yours is a long flight from here."

"No more words. In the name of this place we drink in with our breathing, stay quiet like a flower. So the night-birds will start singing."

"No mirror ever became iron again; no bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light."

"Now is the time to unite the soul and the world. Now is the time to see the sunlight dancing as one with the shadows."

"Nothing can help me but that beauty. 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."

"O BELOVED. In truth everything and everyone is a shadow of the Beloved, and our seeking is His seeking and our words are His words... We search for Him here and there, while looking right at Him. Sitting by His side, we ask: 'O Beloved, where is the Beloved?'"

"O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all – worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares – Make me your servant, your breath, your core."

"O my choice beauty You've gone But your love remains in my heart Your image in my eye O guide on my winding road I keep turning round and round in the hopes of Finding you."

"O Thoughts of Beloved Come closer, You are full of energy, Rest on my eyes, You are full of light."

"Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love."

"Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it."

"O soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul."

"O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease."

"O you who've gone on pilgrimage - where are you, where, oh where? Here, here is the Beloved! Oh come now, come, oh come! Your friend, he is your neighbor, he is next to your wall - You, erring in the desert - what air of love is this? If you'd see the Beloved's form without any form - You are the house, the master, are the Kaaba, you! . . . Where is a bunch of roses, if you would be this garden? Where, one soul's pearly essence when you're the Sea of God? That's true - and yet your troubles may turn to treasures rich - How sad that you yourself veil the treasure that is yours!"

"Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent."

"O, happy the soul that saw its own faults."

"Oh Beloved, take me. Liberate my soul. Fill me with your Love and release me from the two worlds. If I set my heart on anything but You let fire burn me from inside. Oh Beloved, take away what I want, take away what I do, take away what I need, take away everything, that takes me from You."

"Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul."

"Oh sky, without me, do not change, Oh moon, without me, do not shine; Oh earth, without me, do not grow, Oh time, without me, do not go. Others give you the name of Love, And me the sultan of that love. Higher than such illusions, Oh, you cannot go, without me."

"Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!"

"Oh you, unceasing sun, to me Your particles communicate The luminous essence of God, Are you our God? I do not know. Intoxicated, I say nought, Bewitched by the magic potion. I cannot differentiate Between my drunk and sober state."

"On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day."

"Oh! joy for he who has escaped from this world of perfumes and color! For beyond these colors and these perfumes, these are other colors in the heart and the soul. The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light."

"On the path of Love we are neither masters nor the owners of our lives. We are only a brush in the hand of the Master Painter."

"On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day."

"One cannot lodge in 'if.'"

"Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light."

"On the way there is no harder pass than this: fortunate is he who does not carry envy as a companion."