“Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.”

Let silence take you to the core of life.

I see my beauty in you.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that’s when you are near truth.

Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it’s always in motion.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

The universe and the light of the stars come through me.

The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

Look for the answer inside your question.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life.

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

I am imperfect in many things, nevertheless I want my brethren and kinsfolk to know my nature so that they may be able to perceive my soul’s desire.

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

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

My weaknesses had become my strengths, my ugliness had become beauty, my apathy to the world had become a desire to save it.

All the evils that men cause to each other because of certain desires, or opinions or religious principles, are rooted in ignorance. [All hatred would come to an end] when the earth was flooded with the knowledge of God.