The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you

Don't go back to sleep

Respond to every call

that excites your spirit

When you go through a hard period

When you go through a hard period,
When everything seems to oppose you,
When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,
NEVER GIVE UP!
Because it is the time and place that the course will divert!

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.

And you?

 When will you begin that long journey into yourself?

Two there are who are never satisfied

the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

You feel it, don't you?

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.
There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.
You feel it, don't you?

Let yourself be drawn

 by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

I want to see you.

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” 

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others.

Unfold your own myth.

When you do things from your soul

 you feel a river moving in you, a joy

Abraham Maslow

Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,

your heart must forget about 
shame
 and dignity. 
You are God's lover,

yet you worry 
what people 
are saying.

You know you have received the invitation

 when your heart is ready to risk everything to hold the hand of God

Rumi

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft,
wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Do you know what you are?

You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. 
This universe is not outside of you. 
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want, 
you are already that.

Sorrow prepares you for joy.

It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Words are a pretext.

 It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, 
 not words.

You go from village to village on your horse asking everyone,

 “Has anyone seen my horse?”

Even when tied in a thousand knots,

 the string is still but one. 

If you yearn for holy felicity,

shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts. 

Gamble everything for love if you’re a true human being.

If not, leave this gathering. 

Keep knocking,

and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who’s there. 

Rumi

Work in the invisible world at least as hard as you do in the visible.