“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”

“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”

“WHEN YOU ARE FREED FROM THIS BODYYOU WILL ENTER INTO A NEW WORLDWITHOUT ANY EFFORT.”

“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.”

“There is another language beyond language,another place beyond heaven and hell.Precious gems come from another mine,the heart draws light from another source.”

“Beyond Islam and unbelief there is a desert plain. For us, there is a passion in the midst of that expanse. The knower who reaches there will prostrate, there is neither Islam nor unbelief, nor any 'where' in that place.”

“Each has to enter the nest made by the other imperfect bird.”