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  but is not apparent.

  Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche’s labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One.

  Why are you so enchanted by this world, when a mine of gold lies within you?

  This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

  We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust…

  The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance.

  An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind, for learning what men have done and tried to do. Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why. A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed.

  Quotes on Love

  At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:

  We are going to sky, who wants to come with us?

  We have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,

  And now we will go back there, for there is our country.

  I will be waiting here…. For your silence to break, For your soul to shake, For your love to wake!

  A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger.

  Through love the devil becomes an angel.

  Through love stones become soft as butter.

  Through love grief is like delight.

  Through love demons become the servants of God.

  My Sight, my Heart, my Life…

  all three words I have woven into one: LOVE.

  Go back, go back to sleep. Yes, you are allowed. You who have no Love in your heart, you can go back to sleep. The power of Love is exclusive to us, you can go back to sleep. I have been burnt by the fire of Love. You who have no such yearning in your heart, go back to sleep. The path of Love, has seventy-two folds and countless facets. Your love and religion is all about deceit, control and hypocrisy, go back to sleep. I have torn to pieces my robe of speech, and have let go of the desire to converse. You who are not naked yet, you can go back to sleep.

  Someday our souls will be one and

  our union will be forever.

  I know that everything I give you comes back to me.

  So I give you my life , hoping that you will come back to me.

  Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

  Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.

  Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love

  Yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it.

  Both light and shadow are the dance of Love. Love has no cause, it is the astrolabe of God’s secrets. Lover and loving are inseparable and timeless. Although I may try to describe love, when I experience it, I am speechless. Although I may try to write about love, I am rendered helpless. My pen breaks, and the paper slips away at the ineffable place where lover loving and loved are one. Every moment is made glorious by the light of Love.

  I am so close, I may look distant. So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. So out in the open, I appear hidden. So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

  I am your lover, come to my side, I will open the gate to your love. Come settle with me, let us be neighbors to the stars. You have been hiding so long, endlessly drifting in the sea of my love. Even so, you have always been connected to me. Concealed, revealed, in the unknown, in the un-manifest. I am life itself. You have been a prisoner of a little pond, I am the ocean and its turbulent flood. Come merge with me, leave this world of ignorance. Be with me, I will open the gate to your love.

  Those who don’t feel this Love pulling them like a river, those who don’t drink dawn like a cup of spring water or take in the sunset like supper, those who don’t want to change, let them sleep on. This Love is beyond the study of theology, that old trickery and hypocrisy. If you want to improve your mind that way, sleep on. I’ve given up on my brain. I’ve torn the cloth to shreds and thrown it away. If you’re not completely naked, wrap your beautiful robe of words around you, and sleep on.

  You know what love is?

  It is all kindness, generosity.

  Every leaf that grows will tell you: what you sow will bear fruit, so if you have any sense my friend, don’t plant anything but Love.

  Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever.

  I sail with you on the ocean of my dreams

  to a far away distant Place of great beauty and tranquility.

  where suffering and pain do not exist,

  where we give praises for our joy and happiness,

  where our Love intertwines with Love for all things.

  This world is in deep trouble, from top to bottom. But it can be swiftly healed by the balm of love.

  When love is not accepted move on;

  when love is not appreciated walk away;

  hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

  Lovers find secret places inside this violent world where they make transactions with beauty.

  I LOVE my friends neither with my heart nor with my mind.

  Just in case…

  HEART might stop. MIND can forget.

  I Love them with my Soul.

  SOUL never stops or forgets.

  The lover never despairs. For a committed heart everything is possible.

  Where the lips are silent the heart has a thousand tongues.

  The Lover is ever drunk with Love.

  He is mad. She is free.

  He sings with delight. She dances in ecstasy.

  Caught by our own thoughts, we worry about everything.

  But once we get drunk on that Love

  Whatever will be, will be.

  Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

  To love is human. To feel pain is human. Yet to still love despite the pain is pure angel.

  I am iron resisting the most enormous magnet there is.

  In this earth,

  in this immaculate field,

  we shall not plant any seeds

  except for compassion,

  except for love.

  Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

  ‎There is a place where voices sing your beauty,

  A place where every breath carves your image in my soul.

  Love is our steady guide on this road full of hardships.

  Love is the common denominator that unites all people whatever religion they are.

  You have no idea how hard I’ve looked for a gift to bring You. Nothing seemed right. What’s the point of bringing gold to the gold mine, or water to the ocean. Everything I came up with was like taking spices to the Orient. It’s no good giving my heart and my soul because you already have these. So I’ve brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.

  A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden’s beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon
this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land.

  Your earthly lover can be charming and coquettish but never very faithful. The true lover is the one who on your final day opens a thousand doors.

  Love is the whole thing. We are only pieces.

  I want to see you. Know your voice. Recognize you when you first come ‘round the corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you’ve just left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want to know the joy of how you whisper more

  Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen.

  Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God’s favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

  If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows.

  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

  Don’t look for Love, look for the one looking for Love.

  I always thought that

  I was me — but no,

  I was you

  and never knew it.

  You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.

  May this marriage be blessed. May this marriage be as sweet as milk and honey. May this marriage be as intoxicating as old wine. May this marriage be fruitful like a date tree. May this marriage be full of laughter and everyday a paradise. May this marriage be a seal of compassion for here and hereafter. May this marriage be as welcome as the full moon in the night sky. Listen lovers, now you go on, as I become silent and kiss this blessed night.

  A woman is a mystery to guide a wise and open man.

  If someone asks,

  But what is Love?

  Answer,

  Dissolving the will.

  A lover asked his beloved, Do you love yourself more than you love me? Beloved replied, I have died to myself and I live for you. I’ve disappeared from myself and my attributes, I am present only for you. I’ve forgotten all my learnings, but from knowing you I’ve become a scholar. I’ve lost all my strength, but from your power I am able. I love myself…I love you. I love you…I love myself.

  Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.

  I am in Love with Love

  and Love is in love with me.

  My body is in Love with the soul

  and the soul is in Love with my body.

  I opened my arms to Love

  and Love embraced me like a lover.

  Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet.

  Love is the sea where intellect drowns.

  I don’t know why; when I look at you, I see myself.

  I profess the religion of love,

  Love is my religion and my faith.

  My mother is love

  My father is love

  My prophet is love

  My God is love

  I am a child of love

  I have come only to speak of love.

  The intellectual is always showing off,

  the lover is always getting lost.

  The intellectual runs away.

  afraid of drowning;

  the whole business of love

  is to drown in the sea.

  Intellectuals plan their repose;

  lovers are ashamed to rest.

  The lover is always alone.

  even surrounded by people;

  like water and oil, he remains apart.

  The man who goes to the trouble

  of giving advice to a lover

  get nothing. He’s mocked by passion.

  Love is like musk. It attracts attention.

  Love is a tree, and the lovers are its shade.

  If words come out of the heart, they will enter the heart.

  The time has come to turn your heart into a temple of fire. Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor you need to burn in the fire of love.

  Every soul becomes gold

  when touched by the Beloved.

  There is a path from me to you that I am constantly looking for.

  The heart has its own language. The heart knows a hundred thousand ways to speak.

  Love is the bridge between you and everything.

  While the mind sees only boundaries,

  Love knows the secret way there.

  Your magnificence has made me a wonder. Your charm has taught me the way of love.

  This Love has whispered secrets in your ear that don’t make sense to anybody else. You know who You are. You are the shining star.

  Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments.

  At every moment, Love’s voice talks to us from left and from right. All we have to do is to know how to listen.

  Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

  Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

  With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?

  Is your face a beautiful blossom or a sweet torture? I have no complaints but my heart is tempted to let you hear of its sorrows.

  You suppose you are the trouble

  But you are the cure

  You suppose that you are the lock on the door

  But you are the key that opens it

  It’s too bad that you want to be someone else

  You don’t see your own face, your own beauty

  Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.

  Tear off the mask. Your face is glorious.

  Inspirational and Uplifting Quotes

  I saw grief drinking a cup of sorrow and called out, ‘It tastes sweet, does it not?’ ‘You’ve caught me,’ grief answered, ‘and you’ve ruined my business. How can I sell sorrow, when you know it’s a blessing?

  Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

  Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.

  O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

  Do not worry if all the candles in the world flicker and die. We have the spark that starts the fire.

  If Light Is In Your Heart

  You Will Find Your Way Home.

  Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.

  But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

  Be patient where you sit in the dark. The dawn is coming.

  Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

  And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

  Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

  Don’t run away from grief, o soul

  Look for the remedy inside the pain.

  Because the rose came from the thorn

  and the ruby came from a stone.