Love is an emerald. Its brilliant light wards off dragons On this treacherous path.
Water the fruit trees and donโt water the thorns.
We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here.
A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.
Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl
Most people guard against going into the fire, and so end up in it.