Your clothes conceal much of your… And though you seek in garments th… Would that you could meet the sun… For the breath of life is in the s… Some of you say,"It is the north…
One day there passed by a company… And as he came near and saw that t… him not, he stopped. Then there arose in the midst of t… looked upon them and said, ‘Brethr…
And now it was evening. And Almitra the seeress said, “Bl… And he answered, Was it I who spo… Then he descended the steps of the… And facing the people again, he ra…
Your hearts know in silence the se… But your ears thirst for the sound… You would know in words that which… You would touch with your fingers… And it is well you should.
It is when your spirit goes wander… That you, alone and unguarded, com… And for that wrong committed must… Like the ocean is your god—self; It remains for ever undefiled.
When love beckons to you follow hi… And when his wings enfold you yiel… And when he speaks to you believe… For even as love crowns you so sha… Even as he is for your growth so i…
Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite. Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that...
Leave me, my blamer, For the sake of the love Which unites your soul with That of your beloved one; For the sake of that which
He is a link between this and the… He is A pure spring from which all thirs… He is a tree watered by the River… Fruit which the hungry heart crave…
In a few days, loneliness overcame me; and I tired of the grim faces of books; I hired a carriage and started for the house of Farris Effandi. As I reached the pine woods where people w...
A young man of strong body, weakened by hunger, sat on the walker’s portion of the street stretching his hand toward all who passed, begging and repeating his hand toward all who passed...
In the city of Shawakis lived a prince, and he was loved by everyone, men and women and children. Even the animals of the field came unto him in greeting. But all the people said that...
One day Farris Effandi invited me to dinner at his home. I accepted, my spirit hungry for the divine bread which Heaven placed in the hands of Selma, the spiritual bread which makes our...
To you the earth yields her fruit,… It is in exchanging the gifts of t… Yet unless the exchange be in love… When in the market place you toile… Invoke then the master spirit of t…
I was, And I am. So shall I be to the end of time, For I am without end. I have cleft the vast spaces of th…