There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Tender words we spoke to one another are sealed in the secret vaults of heaven. One day like rain, they will fall to earth and grow green all over the world.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

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

You've come to know the fortunate and the inauspicious stars, but you don't know whether you yourself are fortunate or lucky.

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft.