Land of the rising sun

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

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.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

What shall I say, O Muslims, I know not myself, I am neither a Christian, nor a Jew, nor a Zoroastrian, nor a Muslim.