Last night you left me and slept

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

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.

A certain person came to the Friend's doorand knocked."Who's there?""It's me."The Friend answered, "Go away. There's no placefor raw meat at this table."The individual went wandering for a year. Nothing but the…

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.

Until you've found pain, you won't reach the Until you've given up life, you won't unite with the supreme Until you've found fire inside yourself, like the Friend

How does a part of the world leave the world? How does wetness leave water? Dont' try to put out fire by throwing on more fire! Don't wash a wound with blood.

If anyone asks youhow the perfect satisfactionof all our sexual wantingwill look, lift your faceand say, Like this. When someone mentions the gracefulnessof the nightsky, climb up on the roofand dance and say, Like this.

ay sâqî, az-ân bâda ke awwal dâd-î Tlê dô dar andâz-o be-y-afzâ shâdî yâ châshniyê az-ân na-bâyast namûd yâ mast-o kharâb kon, chô sar be-g'shâd-î English TranslationO cupbearer, from that wine which you first gave, Toss in two [more]…