There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the soundbox is stuffed full of anything, no music.... When you're full of food and drink, Satan sits where your spirit should.

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

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

Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths.

Sing to me in the silence of your heart and I will rise up to hear your triumphant song.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

I saw many humans on whom there were no clothes. I saw many clothes in which there were no humans.