“There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.”

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.

I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning.

A wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.

The more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.

The only journey is the one within.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps.

Abu Sa’id al-Kharraz said I have never known Allah May He be exalted except through the coincidence in Him of the opposites. ‘He is the First and the Last, the Apparent and the Hidden.’

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

I think a lot of people feel like they may not get the recognition that they deserve, but that they can still kind of maintain and do good, and there’s a kind of quiet satisfaction in not being recognized for stuff.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It’s eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you’re only making me hate him