“Offen love between two people intensifies not because of beauty or some advantage, but because of sheer spiritual affinity.”

He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration.

If you see Allah, Mighty and Magnificent, holding back this world from you, frequently trying you with adversity and tribulation, know that you hold a great status with Him. Know that He is dealing with you as He does with His Awliya’ and chosen elite, and is watching over you.

Love for God is the farthest reach of all stations, the sun of the highest degrees, and there is no station after that of love, except its fruit and its consequences.

Understand that for every rule which I have mentioned from the Quran, the Devil has one to match it, which he puts beside the proper rule to cause error.

If your busy with yourself now, you will be busy with yourself then. If you are busy with Allah now, you will be with Him then.

He who buries his head deep into a nosebag full of food cannot hope to see the invisible world.

You must convince your heart that whatever Allah has decreed is most appropriate and most beneficial for you.

Never have I dealt with anything more difficult than my own soul, which sometimes helps me and sometimes opposes me.

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river.

Do not fix hopes on your health, and do not laugh away life. Remember how they walked and now all their joints lie separately, and the tongue with which they talked lightly is eaten away by the worms.

It is sometimes said that we drink our religion with our mother’s milk.

Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation.

If you do not prepare now for the Afterlife, then when will you do so?

A man of bad character punishes his own soul.

How did the rose ever open its heart and give to this world all of its beauty? It felt the encouragement of Light against its being; otherwise we all remain too frightened.

There is nothing more extravagant than a generous heart.

If you are blessed enough to become a Mom it is the most beautiful, rewarding feeling in the whole world.

Heaven has not learned of my arrival, and my departure will not in the least diminish it beauty and grandeur. I will sleep underground, for us ephemeral mortals, the only eternity is the moment and drinking to the moment is better than weeping for it.

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.

Some days, all of it aches with beauty.  Others, it all just aches with you.

A bride should look at everything she possibly can…just so she can experiment and see what makes her really feel beautiful or glamorous or classical or whatever she desires to be on that particular day.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.