Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
What you seek is seeking you.
Whatever you know, or don't - only Love is real.
Silence
is an ocean. Speech is a river.
This is how Hallaj said, I am God,
and told the truth!
Study me as much as you like, you will never know me, for I differ a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes, and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
Ich weiß nichts andres als `o Er´ und `o Er der ist´. Ich bin vom Becher der Liebe berauscht, die Welten sind aus meinem Blick geschwunden; ich habe kein Geschäft, als Geistes Gelage und wilde Zecherei. Habe ich einmal in meinem Leben einen Augenblick ohne dich verbacht, von dieser Zeit und von dieser Stunde will ich mein Leben bereuen.
Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both,
you don't belong with us.
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
there is a field. I will meet you there.
Christ is the population of the world,
and every object as well.
Was ist zu tun, o Moslems? Denn ich erkenne mich selber nicht. Ich bin nicht Christ, nicht Jude, nicht Parse, nicht Muselmann. Ich bin nicht vom Osten, nicht vom Osten, nicht vom Westen, nicht vom Land, nicht von der See. (…) Mein Ort ist das Ortlose, meine Spur ist das Spurlose; es ist weder Leib noch Seele, denn ich gehöre der Seele des Geliebten.
As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.
My head is bursting
with the joy of the unknown.
You knock at the door of Reality.
The idol of your self is the mother of all idols.
Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul?
I cannot stop asking.
Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking.
Live in silence.
In here
there is no dogma and no heresy.
When I have sacrificed my angel-soul,
I shall become what no mind e'er conceived.
Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence
Proclaims in organ tones, To Him we shall return.
This is what is signified by the words Anā l-Ḥaqq, "I am God." People imagine that it is a presumptuous claim, whereas it is really a presumptuous claim to say Ana 'l-'abd, "I am the slave of God"; and Anā l-Ḥaqq, "I am God" is an expression of great humility
