Occupation: Poet Birth: September 30, 1207 Death: December 17, 1273
Soul of all souls, life of all life - you are That. Seen and unseen, moving and unmoving - you are That. The road that leads to the City is endle….
Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven..
In the garden I see only your face From trees and blossoms I inhale only your fragrance..
Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel - I am the carpenter of my own soul..
I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast..
Soul, a moving river. Body, the riverbed..
Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen..
The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful..
My sight My heart My Life All three words I have woven into one ... Love..
The Lover is ever drunk with Love. He is mad. She is free. He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy. Caught by our own thoughts, we worry a….
Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices….
If the wine drinker has a deep gentleness in him, he will show that when drunk. But if he has hidden anger and arrogance, those appear..
The cure for pain is in the pain..
What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached..
Give your weakness to one who helps..
Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for tears, have mercy on one who sheds tears; i….
Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this be….
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 r….
We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust... The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance..
I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world..
Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you..