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Is your face a beautiful blossom
or a sweet torture?
I have no complaints
but my heart is tempted
to let you
hear of its sorrows.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.

Love is an emotion. Totally silent and inexpressible with words.

Reason is powerless in the expression of Love.

All winter you carved water jars out of ice.
How well will they hold the summer snowmelt?

The Heart is your Student,
For love is the only way we learn.

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

If your thought is a rose, you are a rose garden; and if it is a thistle, you are fuel for the fire.

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

The quiter you become, the more able you are to hear

From a distance you only see my light; as I get closer and you see that I am you.

Ecstatic Love is an ocean, and the Milky Way is a flake of foam floating on it.

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?

I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

Trust means you're ready to risk what you currently have.

Only union with you gives joy.
The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.

Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.

Although you appear in earthly form Your essence is pure Consciousness. You are the fearless guardian of Divine Light.

Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains ...

When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!

Don't be fooled by my beauty -
the light of my face
comes from the candle of my spirit.

All is known in the sacredness of silence.

Get yourself out of the way, and let joy have more space.

How did you get here?
Close your eyes ...
and surrender!

Give yourself completely to the one you call God. If you are not doing it you are wasting your time here.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness

The sky will bow down to your beauty, if you do.

Wake up:
This world that you dream holds nothing to fear.

When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?

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

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face.

The day you were born, a ladder was set up to help you escape this world ...

What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Whoever travels without a guide, needs two hundred years for a two-day journey.

You moan, "She left me." "He left me,"
Twenty more will come.

Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Submit to love without thinking,
as the sun rose this morning
recklessly extinguishing
our star-candle minds.

I am a child whose teacher is LOVE surely my master won't let me grow to be a fool.

Body of earth, don't talk of earth Tell the story of pure mirrors The Creator has given you this splendor
Why talk of anything else?

Love is a mirror. In it you see nothing except your reflection. You see nothing except your real face.

I wrote
Your Name
in My Heart
and
Forever
it will Stay.

Love is the energizing elixir of the Universe, the cause and effect of all Harmony.

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

Wake up Lovers, It is time to start the Journey! Let us kiss the ground & flow like a river towards the Ocean. Only love can lead the way.

Roar the lion's knowledge. Write
with gold ink so whoever reads this will feel the ocean's light around them and grow
in the spirit.

They say 'He cannot be found'. Something that cannot be 'found' is what I desire.

If someone asks,
But what is Love?
Answer,
Dissolving the will.

Wisdom tells us we are not worthy;
Love tells us we are.
My life flows between the two.

You are the mirror of divine beauty.

I will whisper secrets in your ears,
just nod yes and be silent.
A soul moon appeared in the path of my heart.
How precious is this journey

Criticism polishes my mirror.

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently ... Can words describe the indescribable?

In fact, my soul and yours are the same, You appear in me, I in you, We hide in each other.

You are my wine, my joy,
My garden, my springtime,
My slumber, my repose,
Without you, I can't cope.

If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light.

He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.

With each passing moment, a Soul sets off to find Itself.

I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.

Whenever we manage to love without expectations, calculations, negotiations, we are indeed in heaven.

Forgive: if you never know forgiveness,
You'll never know the blessings that God gives.

No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

If the beloved is everywhere,
the lover is a veil,
but when living itself becomes
the Friend, lovers disappear.

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

Even though in the world you are the most learned scholar of the time, Behold the vanishing of this world and this time!

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

From the urgent way lovers want each other to the seeker's search for truth, all moving is from the mover. Every Pull Draws Us To The Ocean.

A heart filled with love is like a phoenix that no cage can imprison.

My heart rushes into the garden, joyfully tasting all the delights. But reason frowns, disapproving of the heart's bad manners.

Earth tries to work sorcery on us, saying Tomorrow, Tomorrow, but we outwit that spell by enjoying this now.

When I say the word You, I mean
a hundred universes.

Why should I be unhappy?
Every parcel of my being
is in full bloom.

There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

Be certain that in the religion of Love there are no believers and unbelievers. LOVE embraces all.

You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly.

There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

The soul: a wide listening sky with thousands of candles.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.

I walk into a huge pasture. I nurse the milk of millennia.

Look at Love with the eyes of your Heart.

When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART,
there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU.

Every tree, every growing thing as it grows,
says THIS truth, you harvest what you sow.

The interpretation that makes you ardent and hopeful and active and reverent is the true one.

But learn this custom from the flower: silence your tongue.

Fasting is an amazing thing. It gives people heart and soul.