Each person is oriented toward a quest for his personal invisible guide, or . . . he entrusts himself to the collective, magisterial authority as the intermediary between himself and Revelation.

None but God is loved in the exist- ent things. It is He who is manifest within every beloved to the eye of every lover – and there is nothing in the existent realm that is not a lover

Oh, Lord, nourish me not with love, but with the desire for love.

When you know yourself, your 'I'ness vanishes and you know that you and Allah are one and the same.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith.

You are My sight, so have faith. You are My Face, so veil yourself