Mevlana

* To Love is to reach God.

* People are distracted by objects of desire,
and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged,
because they have indulged with a phantom
and are left even farther from Reality than before.

* Giving thanks for abundance
is sweeter than the abundance itself.

* There's no cure, except the retreat into love,
for the suffering of subtly afflicted hearts.

* It is Love and the Lover that live eternally -
Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

* If destiny comes to help you,
Love will come to meet you.
A life without love isn't a life

* Through love, scraps of copper are turned to gold.

* This silence, this moment, every moment, if it's genuinely inside you, brings what you need. There's nothing to believe. Only when I stopped believing in myself did I come into this beauty. Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.' Die and be quiet. Quietness is the surest sign that you've died. Your old life was a frantic running from silence. Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.