“The fish in the water that is thirsty needs serious professional counseling.”

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.

Student, tell me, what is God? He is the breath inside the breath.

Are you looking for the Holy One? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours.

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.

Haste is a poor counselor.

A physician is nothing but a consoler of the mind.

For when last need to desperation driveth, Who dareth most he wiseth counsel giveth.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

There is something better, if possible, that a man can give than his life. That is his living spirit to a service that is not easy, to resist counsels that are hard to resist, to stand against purposes that are difficult to stand against.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Don’t take counsel of your fears or naysayers.