1. “All that is left
to us by tradition
is mere words.
It is up to us
to find out what they mean.”
2. ”O Marvel! a garden amidst the flames.
My heart has become capable of every form:
it is a pasture for gazelles and a convent for Christian monks,
and a temple for idols and the pilgrim's Kaa'ba,
and the tables of the Torah and the book of the Quran.
I follow the religion of Love: whatever way Love's camels take,
that is my religion and my faith.”
3. “The goblet of love is the lover's heart, not his reason or his sense perception. For the heart fluctuates from state to state, just as God-who is the Beloved-is each day upon some task (Qur'An 55:29). So the lover undergoes constant variation of the Beloved in His acts .... Love has many diverse and mutually opposed properties. Hence nothing receives these properties except that which has the capacity to fluctuate along with love. This belongs only to the heart.”
4. ”Were it not for
the excess of your talking
and the turmoil in your hearts,
you would see what I see
and hear what I hear!”
5. ”When my Beloved appears, With what eye do I see Him? With His eye, not with mine, For none sees Him except Himself.”
