Your heart is not living intil it has experienced pain... the pain of love breaks open the heart, even if it is as hard as a rock.

If anybody asks what Sufism is, what kind of religion is it, the answer is that Sufism is the religion of the heart, the religion in which the thing of primary importance is to seek God in the heart of mankind.

People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a person describes the hereafter, it is just like wanting to weigh the soul or photograph the spirit. I personally think that you must be able to realize yourself what the hereafter is. You must not depend upon my words.

Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.

There is nothing in the world that does not speak to us. Everything and everybody reveals its own nature, character and secrets continuously. The more open our inner senses, the more we understand the voice of everything.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Love develops into harmony, and of harmony is born beauty.