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My friend, the sufi is the friend of the present moment. To say tomorrow is not our way.
Sep 17, 2025
Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.
Now is the time to unite the Soul and the world.
Come, even if you have broken your vow one thousand times, come, yet again, come, come.
Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.
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.
Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.
Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.
Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death.
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.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
In your light I learn how to love.
What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.
Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands look for something, will find it.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Either give me more wine or leave me alone.
But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in.
Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?
This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
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.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Travel brings power and love back into your life.
Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.