I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

Poverty is not for the sake of hardship. No, it is there because nothing exists but Allah. Poverty unlocks the door - what a blessed key!

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

When you see anyone complaining of such and such a person's ill-nature and bad temper, know that the complainant is bad-tempered, forasmuch as he speaks ill of that bad-tempered person, because he alone is good-tempered who is quietly forbearing towards the bad-tempered and ill-natured.

Even when tied in a thousand knots, the string is still but one.