The stone neither speaks nor gives anything. Therefore its service is fruitless and its worship is of no avail.

Men have always looked before and after, and rebelled against the existing order. But for their divine discontent, men would not have been men, and there would have been no progress in human affairs.

I laugh when I hear the fish in the water is thirsty.

I laugh when I hear that the fish in the water is thirsty. You don't grasp the fact that what is most alive of all is inside your own house; and so you walk from one holy city to the next with a confused look!

Listen to me, my Friend! My beloved Lord is within.

Why are we here? To become ourselves in you.

The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.