"Poetry is just the Evidence of Life. If your Life is Burning, well Poetry is just the Ash.

" - Leonard Cohen "At the Touch of Love, Everyone becomes a Poet." - Plato Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty. - Rumi He who loves Me, knows Me, and He who knows Me, finds Me. - Traditional sufi saying When peoples internal motivations and external acts are inconsistent they should not be astonished by the tribulations and calamities that are visited upon them - Salih al-Murri An intelligent person does not seek additional knowledge until he acts on everything he already knows. After that he learns something new in order to implement it -Bishr al-Hafi Knowledge is enlivened by active search and sincere implementation, and it dies through neglecting these two things - Sufyan al-Thawri One who loves for people to speak good of him, [while unconcerned about how he stands with God], has attained neither true God Consciousness nor sincerity in religion - Ibrahim bin Adham "At the extremity of hardship comes reliefe and at the tightening of the chains of trials and tribulations comes ease" -Imam Ali ibn Talib (ra) "To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand and eternity in an hour." - William Blake You can't produce beautiful photos without negatives A smile is a curve that sets everything straight Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart" -Kahlil Gibran He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy - Kahlil Gibran "It is a very high stage on the path of love,when a man really learns to love another with a love that asks no return" "What is the end of love? Love has no end. Why? Because the Beloved has no end"

"A parent is the best of the gates of Paradise ; so if you wish, keep to the gate, or lose it." - Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty The life of the heart is knowledge; so preserve it, The death of the heart is ignorance; so avoid it. Your best provision is true devotion; so provide it. This advice of mine is enough for you; so heed it. - Imam al-Ghazl Do not cause hurt to the hearts of others dispel the disease in your heart which desires to hurt.Great benefit will come to you and bring peace into your life. - Bawa Muhaiyyadeen "Love deafens me to every voice but His.Was ever love so strange as His? Love blinds me,and on Him alone I gaze.Love blinds and,being hidden,slays" -Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear. - Inayat Khan There is nothing to fear but He who pervades everything; who has willfully shrouded existence with Mercy and Compassion ... hearts find peace in the remembrance of God O eye, Remember other people have eyes too ... "Don't listen to what your body craves. Take your counsel elsewhere, if you don't wish to end in regret" -Rumi "The glance is a poisoned arrow of Shaitaan. Whoever lowers his gaze for Allah, He will bestow upon him a refeshing sweetness which he will find in his heart on the day that he meets Him" - Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) "Language cannot express the reality of faith, but it can explain what one believes and why" - Hamza Yusuf "The sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights up the whole sky." Nothing is more painful than to consciously feel within our own heart that we are seperate from God Even if you feel torn to pieces sew yourself new clothes your body and soul will surely feel the joy when you simply go along

-Rumi People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have undulged with a phantom and are left even further from Reality than before. -Rumi Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother Death is the suspension of time, and time is born of our attachment to things that perish - Farid al-Din Attar Reality is Truth and Truth is Reality. God is Truth and God is Reality. Reality is the infinite manifestation of His Face Whatever we love in this visible world, we are sure to discover its flaws Although your desire tastes sweet, doesn't the Beloved desire you to be desireless? One who tells the truth is wealthy now and blessed in the world to come. As for the other kinds of income, your friendships help with those. Let the inner richness of honesty be enough for your soul It is God Who gives and it is He Who takes away. Whatever He takes today, He may give back tomorrow in a different way; material goods are not the essential thing in the path of God "Every time you address people with a subject above their ability to understand, it would turn into confusion for them" - Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Sincerity is to forget the vision of creation by constantly looking at the Creator "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" - Rumi With the very first thought of the Beloved I was lost to the world.If this be the beginning what would be its finale? God is not in the words that one articulates; He is in the meanings that run in the heart "Suffering is a gift, and in it is hidden mercy" - Rumi "If one knows the true meaning of Islam, there will be no wars. All that will be heard are the sounds of prayer and the greetings of peace" - Bawa Muhaiyaddeen In the outside world, wind sets the trees in motion. On the inside, remembrance rustles the leaves of the heart