“Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives.”

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it’s gone.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

We love that s why life is full of so many wonderful gifts.

If you want to be more alive, love is the truest health.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.

Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize.

No one can tell if I’m laughing or weeping.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.

What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.

This is what love does and continues to do. It tastes like honey to adults and milk to children.

In mutual love the lover not only wants the happiness of his beloved; but has an eye towards his own happiness also.

The Beloved is inside you and also inside me. You know the tree is hidden inside the seed. Let your arrogance go. None of us has gone far. Inside love there is more power than we realize.

Listen to me brother! bring the vision of the Beloved in your heart.

Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad’st all worlds.

In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies.

If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice.

Love goes very far beyond the physical person of the beloved. It finds its deepest meaning in his spiritual being, his inner self. Whether or not he is actually present, whether or not he is still alive at all, ceases somehow to be of importance.