The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

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.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair.

Let yourself be drawn by the stronger pull of that which you truly love.

Do not grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Dance until you shatter yourself.

Listen to the reed how it complains, telling a tale of separations.

In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear.

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?

Close your eyes, fall in love, stay there.

Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

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

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

The lion is most handsome when looking for food.

Wear gratitude like a cloak and it will feed every corner of your life.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

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.

The soul has been given its own ears to hear things the mind does not understand.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems.

Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the dawn.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival.

Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they're a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

Knock, And He'll open the door. Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun. Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens. Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything.

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.

Be an opener of doors.

There is a voice that doesn't use words. Listen.

When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

Respond to every call that excites your spirit.

If the foot of the trees were not tied to the earth, of what journeys they would be capable!

Suffering is a gift. In it is hidden mercy.

I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

Run from what's comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live.

Inside you there's an artist you don't know about.

Come out of the circle of time and into the circle of love.

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought!

My heart is so small it is almost invisible. How can you place such great sorrows in it? Look, He answered, your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.

Why are you enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?

Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.

Do not look at my outward shape, but take what is in my hand.

The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation!

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold. If you have a passion for love, you'll melt into the fire of the beloved.

The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.

Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.

Don't turn your head. Keep looking at the bandaged place. That is where the light enters you.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

When you seek love with all your heart, you shall find its echoes in every corner of creation.

Love is the bridge between you and everything.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

Look at the moon, how it illuminates the world without asking for a reward.

Drink your wine in the sanctuary of peace.

Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep.

People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don't go back to sleep.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

The quiet whisper of the rose touches the heart deeper than a trumpet.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

In every religion there is love, yet love has no religion.

The lamps are different, but the Light is the same.

A mountain does not tremble before the wind.

Give up defining yourself. Let your identity dissolve in the beloved.

A wealth you cannot imagine flows through 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?

Do you pay more attention to the spoon than the soup?

Sit quietly, and listen for a voice that will say, 'Be more silent.'

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

Water says to the dirty: 'Come here.' The dirty says: 'I am ashamed.' Water says: 'How will you be cleansed without me?'

All day and night, music, a quiet, bright reed-song. If it fades, we fade.

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.

The garden of the world has no limits, except in your mind.

Knock on the sky and listen to the sound.

Don't grieve for what doesn't come. Some things that don't happen keep disasters from happening.

A stone became a plant; a plant, an animal; an animal, a human. Why should you fear that death will diminish you?

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn.

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Grace comes to forgive, and then forgive again.

I am a sculptor, a molder of form. In every glance I create an image of you, and then I cast it into the fire.

The heart is cooking fire, and the mind is cold ash.

Open your hands, if you want to be held.

Be silent, for the world of silence is a vast fullness.

You are the seeker, the goal, and the journey itself.

Let the lover be scandalous, wild, and free. A sober person cannot comprehend this music.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.