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Humble living does not diminish. It fills. Going back to a simpler self gives wisdom.
God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.
Don't regret what's happened. If it's in the past, LET IT GO. Don't even remember it!
Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.
The pure heart is a spotless mirror in which images of infinite beauty are reflected.
Who could be so lucky? Who comes to a lake for water and sees the reflection of moon.
Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created.
I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.
Pilgrimage to the place of the wise is to find escape from the flame of separateness.
LOVE and LOVER live in Eternity. Other desires are substitutes for that way of being.
Open to me, so that I may open. Provide me your inspiration So that I might see mine.
The water has a Water that is driving it; The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it.
From the Distance You only See My Light; Come closer and You will Know that I Am You.
The work of magic is this, that it breathes and at every breath transforms realities.
To be over much facetious is the accomplishment of courtiers and blemish of the wise.
So long as money can answer, it were wrong in any business to put the life in danger.
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
Kindred objects kindred thoughts inspire, As summer clouds flash forth electric fire.
Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.
And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.
Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style.
Often do the spirits stride on before the event; and in today already walks tomorrow.
The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.
Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
There is a quiet at the heart of love, And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.
Places I love come back to me like music, / Hush me and heal me when I am very tired.
Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.
Whom shall I call on? Who will share with me The wretched happiness of staying alive?
So please get your rags And your polishing jars, Somebody has to go polish the stars.
Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.
Every movie is a road movie. Every novel is a mystery. Every tortilla chip is sacred.
People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book.
A sodomite got very excited looking at a zoology text. Does this make it pornography?
It was as if pain were a room he had entered and the door had been locked behind him.
I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me.
Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.
I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.
I think most men, heterosexual and homosexual, enjoy being considered sexual objects.
Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.
Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.
Men will believe anything at all provided they are under no obligation to believe it.
Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way.
Surely 't is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.
How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!
Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.