It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.

This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away.

Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.

Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom.

However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.

The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

We are born of love; Love is our mother.

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

Appear as you are, be as you appear.

The ego is a veil between humans and God. In prayer all are equal.

Reason is powerless in the expression of love.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Giving thanks for abundance is greater than the abundance itself.

When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray.

Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.

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

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.

Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you.

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Stop acting so small, you are the universe in ecstatic motion.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is within you.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.