“As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.”

If you haven’t experienced it, it’s not true.

My Beloved One gleams like the lightning flash in the sky.

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

I felt in need of a great pilgrimage, so I sat still for three days and God came to me.

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim, I am this body, a play Of five elements a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

Faith,Waiting in the heart of a seed, Promises a miracle of life which cannot prove at once.

Do you believe there is some place that will make thesoul less thirsty? In that great absence you will find nothing.

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

When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

If you don’t break your ropes while you’re alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

As the bee collecteth honey with great zest, so the fool collecteth wealth.

What is found now is found then. If you find nothing now, you will simply end up with an apartment in the City of Death.

Do not praise yourself not slander others: There are still many days to go and any thing could happen.

If you want the truth, I’ll tell you the truth. Listen to the secret sound, the real sound, which is inside you.

Wear a crown of flowers on your head, let its roots reach your heart.

The distance between who I am, and who I want to be is measure only, by my actions.

Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want.

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion.

whereas the dog strives to lessen the distance between himself and man, seeks ever to be intelligent and intelligible, and translates into looks and actions the words he cannot speak, the cat dwells within the circle of her own secret thoughts.

The greatest distance in the world is the 14 inches from our minds to our hearts.

It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life.

The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance.

Being around their presence means shit if their heart is miles apart.