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Sufi mystic and poet · 1207–1273
Sufi mystic and poet (1207–1273)
“Beauty surrounds us.”
“Woman is the light of God.”
“What you seek is seeking you.”
“The cure for pain is in the pain.”
“Give your weakness to one who helps.”
“Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!”
“Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less.Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.”
“This silence, this moment, every moment, if its genuinely inside you, brings what you need. Theres nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty.Sit quietl...”
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”
“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.”
“the work of the (Muslim Sufi) dervish community was to open the heart, explore the mystery of union,to fiercely search for and try to say the truth,and to celebrate the glory and difficulty in bein...”
“Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.The wound is the place where the Light enters you.Dont grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
“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.”
“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.”
“A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
“I know you're tired but come, this is the way.”
“That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.”
“I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star.”
“Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you.”
“I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo ...”
“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”
“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 worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?”
“Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!”
“Like ThisIf anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say,Like this.When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roo...”
“Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.”