Sufilere sohbet gerek Ahilere ahret gerek Mecnunlara Leyla gerek Bana seni gerek seni

Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow.

Come let us be friends for once. Let us make life easy on us. Let us be loved ones and lovers. The earth shall be left to no one.

I am the drop that contains the ocean

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.

My heart is the throne of the Beloved, the Beloved the heart's destiny: Whoever breaks another's heart will find no homecoming in this world or any other.

A heart makes a good home for the friend.

To love the world is to be afflicted.

If I told you about a land of love...would you swallow it as a remedy?

Too many words are lit for a beast of burden.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

As inside of every seed is the power to rise from darkness, inside of everyone is the power to rise from adversity.

Hosts of merchants encumber the cities, and the streets are cluttered with solicitors who swarm without limit or purpose.

If it isn't a passion, it isn't burning, it isn't on fire, you haven't lived.

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

Sometimes you think the whole world is falling, and it's only yourself that's leaning.

The old story is a story of measurement. And the New Story is to bring measurement and meaning together. You cannot measure meaning.

Busyness, keeping up with others, hustling hither and yon, makes it almost impossible for an individual to form a heart.

I started getting emails from Anna Wintour inviting me to her dinners. It was just surreal.

Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.