Quotes About Spirituality

There's a hidden sweetness in the stomach's emptiness. We are lutes, no more, no less. If the sound box is stuffed full of anything, no music. If the brain and the belly are burning clean with fasting, every moment a new song comes out of the fire. The fog clears, and a new energy makes you run up the steps in front of you....

All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun's light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it's still one light.

Out beyond ideas of rightdoing and wrongdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.

To change, a person must face the dragon of his appetites with another dragon, the life-energy of the soul.

In each moment the fire rages, it will burn away a hundred veils. And carry you a thousand steps toward your goal.

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.

Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace.

Whosoever knoweth the power of the dance, dwelleth in God.

There is one way of breathing that is shameful and constricted. Then, there's another way: a breath of love that takes you all the way to infinity.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and become a seeker of hearts.

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper!

Into my heart's night Along a narrow way I groped; and lo! the light, An infinite land of day.

silence is the language of god, all else is poor translation.

How can I know anything about the past or the future, when the light of the Beloved shines only Now.

Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged

...rush out in the rain to be soaked with the sky.

You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You're some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won't have to become coins.

Come sit with me! Let us drink the holy wine of happiness.

That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains....

I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

At night, I open the window and ask the moon to come and press its face against mine. Breathe into me. Close the language-door and open the love-window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.

I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star.