Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wing...
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
Without demolishing religious schools (madrassahs) and minarets and without abandoning the beliefs and ideas of the medieval age, restriction in thoughts and pains in conscience will not end. Without understanding that unbelief is a kind of religion,...
Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
You are so weak. Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.
Soul, if you want to learn secrets, your heart must forget about shame and dignity. You are God's lover, yet you worry what people are saying.
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
Notice how each particle moves. Notice how everyone has just arrived here from a journey. Notice how each wants a different food. Notice how the stars vanish as the sun comes up, and how all streams stream toward the ocean. Look at the chefs preparin...
Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!
When you go through a hard period, When everything seems to oppose you, ... When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute, NEVER GIVE UP! Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!
Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
You're water. We're the millstone. You're wind. We're dust blown up into shapes. You're spirit. We're the opening and closing of our hands. You're the clarity. We're the language that tries to say it. You're joy. We're all the different kinds of laug...
Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange.
Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane Go...
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.
