God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart.
We can't help being thirsty, moving toward the voice of water.
The sweetness and delights of the resting-place are in proportion to the pain endured on the Journey. Only when you suffer the pangs and tribulations of exile will you truly enjoy your homecoming.
Through love all that is bitter will be sweet.
If the Beautiful One is not inside you, then what is that Light hidden under your cloak?
Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.