Looking up gives light, although at first it makes you dizzy.

Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

I have been so naughted in Thy Love's existence that my nonexistence is a thousand times sweeter than my existence

I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

A man or a woman is said to be absorbed when the water has total control of him, and he no control of the water. A swimmer moves around willfully. An absorbed being has no will but the water's going. Any word or act is not really personal, but the way the water has of speaking or doing. As when you hear a voice coming out of a wall, and you know that it's not the wall talking, but someone inside, or perhaps someone outside echoing off the wall. Saints are like that. They've achieved the condition of a wall, or a door.