My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar.

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

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.

Carry the burden smilingly and cheerfully, because patience is the key to victory.

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head.

IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.