Occupation: Poet Birth: September 30, 1207 Death: December 17, 1273
Awake asleep ought to be with us - So he may see dreams in wakefulness..
Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly..
Clean out your ears, don't listen for what you already know..
If you can't smell the fragrance don't come into the garden of Love. if you are unwilling to undress don't enter into the stream of Truth. Stay w….
All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewher….
The body's a mirror of heaven: Its energies make angels jealous. Our purity astounds seraphim. Devils shiver at our nerve..
Don’t wait any longer. Dive in the ocean, Leave and let the sea be you..
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. ….
Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom..
Don't look for me in a human shape, I am inside your looking..
What? Are you still pretending you are separate from the Beloved?.
Love is the water of life, jump into this water..
Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields b….
I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it..
I always thought that I was me — but no, I was you and never knew it..
In his mind she lay at his lap with his fingers gliding thru her straight beautiful hair. He smiles and says" your beauty lights up everything around….
I am your own voice echoing off the walls of God.
Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world..
You rave about the Holy Place (Masjid al-Haram) and say you've visited God's garden but where is your bunch of flowers? There is some merit in the su….
When love itself comes to kiss you, don't hold back!.
My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless..