Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.

Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need.

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls.

Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.

I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, 'It tastes sweet, does it not?' 'You've caught me,' grief answered, 'and you've ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it's a blessing?

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I'll meet you there

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.