Who makes these changes

This we have nowis not imagination. This is not grief or joy. Not a judging state, or an elation

In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness, nothing else exists. There is no reason for living except for giving one's life. I said, "First I know you, then I die."He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no…

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religionor cultural system. I am not from the Eastor the West, not out of the ocean or upfrom the ground, not natural or ethereal, notcomposed of elements at all.

I swear, since seeing Your face, the whole world is fraud and The garden is bewildered as to what is leafor blossom. The distracted birdscan't distinguish the birdseed from the snare.

Every night Thou freest our spirits from the And its snare, making them pure as rased tablets. Every night spirits are released from this cage, And set free, neither lording it nor lorded over.

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

Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface, yet I'm already under and living with the

In the end, the mountains of imagination were nothing   but a house. And this grand life of mine was nothing but an excuse. You've been hearing my story so patiently for a Now hear this: it was nothing but a fairy tale.