If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any skin. Every jarful spills and makes the earth more shining, as though covered in satin... Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

The soul which cannot endure fire and smoke won't find the Secret.

I grow silent. Dear soul, you speak.

Oh lovers, where are you going? Who are you looking for? Your beloved is right here.

You soak up my soul and mingle me. Each drop of my blood cries out to the earth. We are partners, blended as one.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.