Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child.

Many have been led astray by the Qur'an: by clinging to that rope many have fallen into the well. There is no fault in the rope, O perverse man, for it was you who had no desire to reach the top.

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.

I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

How will you know the difficulties of being human, if you are always flying off to blue perfection? Where will you plant your grief seeds? Workers need ground to scrape and hoe, not the sky of unspecified desire.

In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.