If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.

Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy.

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .

Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

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

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close.