Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul.

Creatures are cups. The sciences and the arts and all branches of knowledge are inscriptions around the outside of the cups. When a cup shatters, the writing can no longer be read. The wine's the thing! The wine that's held in the mold of these physical cups. Drink the wine and know what lasts and what to love. The man who truly asks must be sure of two things: One, that he's mistaken in what he's doing or thinking now. And two, that there is a wisdom he doesn't know yet. Asking is half of knowing.

Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths.

A divine dance appears in the soul and the body at the time of peace and union.Anyone can learn the dance, just listen to the music.

This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

If you knew the secret of life, you too would choose no other companion but love.