It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.'

Should you really open your eyes and see, you would behold your image in all images. And should you open your ears and listen, you would hear your own voice in all voices.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a trance I cried, "Blessed, blessed are the thieves who stole my masks." Thus I became a madman.

And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.