Let yourself be loved, O Beloved, in the One. And from this One move out into the world, carrying within you the great potent energies of life to green your world, to create planets, suns, stars, stones, waves, oceans, to create new forms of life and expression - whether a friendship, a feeling or a new form of vocation.

If you wish to be a mine of jewels, open the deep ocean within your heart.

One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of.

Say Bismillah, In the name of God, as the shaykh does with a knife when he offers an animal. Bismillah your old self to find your real name. - Jalaluddin al

Inside of us, there's a continual autumn. Our leaves fall and are blown out over the water.

You think because you understand 'one' you must also understand 'two', because one and one make two. But you must also understand 'and'.

Tomorrow you'll be brave, you say? Fool! Dive today.