Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?

I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Be suspicious of what you want.

Everything is emptiness. Everything else, accidental. Emptiness brings peace to your loving. Everything else, disease. In this world of trickery, emptiness is what your soul wants.

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

Everything about yesterday has gone with yesterday. Today, it is needed to say new things.