The heart is your student, for love is the only way we learn.

If you are looking for a friend who is faultless, you will be friendless.

Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.

Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.

Let us carve gems out of our stony hearts and let them light our path to love.