“If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it.”

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.When you're not here, I can't go to sleep.Praise God for those two insomnias!And the difference between them.”

“I am yours.Don't give myself back to me.”

“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”

“A servant wants to be rewarded for what he does. A lover wants only to be in love's presence, that ocean whose depth will never be known.”

“Dear soul, don't set a high value on someone before they deserve it; You either lose them or ruin yourself...!”

“Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another.”

“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.”

“There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.”

“If the beloved is everywhere,the lover is a veil,but when living itself becomesthe Friend, lovers disappear.”