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Traces left by those who passed this way: sayings of the masters, with their sources.

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I am the one I love, and the one I love is I; we are two spirits dwelling in one body.Mansur al-Hallaj The hidden treasure burst from its fullness; it made the earth brighter than the heavens.Rumi The Real fills the world, yet no one knows the Real
Seek Him within yourself; He is never apart from youYunus Emre When those thirty birds looked, they saw at once: these thirty birds were, beyond doubt, that Simurgh.Farid al-Din Attar What a beautiful hidden treasure, from which everything that exists comes forth and appears.Niyazi Misri Whoever knows himself knows his Lord.Sufi tradition A sun hidden in a single mote; suddenly that mote opens its mouth.Rumi You placed the treasure of Your love in our ruined heart; You cast the shadow of Your favor upon this desolate corner.Hafez A person is hidden beneath his tongue.Ali ibn Abi Talib The station of love is lofty; love is ancient, without beginning
Whoever speaks the word of love is the tongue of all-powerYunus Emre Do not say I am in me; I am not in me
There is an I in me, deeper within than meYunus Emre Whatever there is in the world, it turns out, is love
Knowledge, it turns out, is only idle talkFuzuli Your spirit has mingled with mine, as wine mingles with clear water.
When something touches you, it touches me; in every state, you are I.Mansur al-Hallaj O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell. If I worship You in hope of Paradise, forbid Paradise to me. If I worship You for Your own sake, do not withhold from me Your everlasting beauty.Rabia al-Adawiyya My heart has become capable of every form:
a pasture for gazelles, a monastery for monks.Ibn Arabi Love is among the attributes of God, who needs nothing;
loving anything other than Him is metaphor.Rumi One whose heart is brought alive by love never dies;
our permanence is written in the ledger of the world.Hafez Look kindly upon your self, for you are the cream of the world
You are the human who is the pupil of the eye of all beingsSheikh Galib We have seen both the autumn and the spring of the world's garden.Nabi A love that is not eternal
is a plaything of youthful desire.Nizami Ganjavi I am content with the pain of love; physician, keep your remedy from me
Do not cure me, for my ruin lies in the poison of your cureFuzuli When a lamp takes light from a candle,
whoever sees it has surely seen that candle.Rumi With every breath the world and we are renewed;
yet within this continuity we are unaware that we are being renewed.Rumi Whoever comes into this world must in the end go again
He is a guest; one day he must journey to his homelandYunus Emre Send your voice out into this world like David
What remains under this dome, it seems, is a pleasant echoBaki O heart, O heart, why are you so full of sorrow
Though you are a ruin, you are a spellbound treasureSheikh Galib O heart, do not tie a firm knot of attachment to the world
You are a wandering guest; this is a ruined caravanseraiFuzuli Beware of forsaking reverence: this is the street of God's Beloved
This is the place of the Divine gaze, the station of MustafaNabi There are two blessings in which most people are deceived:
health and free time.Prophet Muhammad Yesterday is gone, and yesterday's word has passed like yesterday.
Today a fresh word must be spoken.Rumi Knowledge is to know knowledge; knowledge is to know yourself
If you do not know yourself, then what is all this reading?Yunus Emre People are asleep; when they die, they wake.Ali ibn Abi Talib Whatever is in the world is not outside you.
Whatever you want, seek it in yourself; it is you.Rumi If you share our lesson, wash the pages;
the knowledge of love is not found in a notebook.Hafez However much knowledge you read,
if there is no practice in you, you do not know.Saadi For it is doubts that lead to the truth. Whoever does not doubt does not look, whoever does not look does not see, and whoever does not see remains in blindness and error.al-Ghazali Do not throw anyone's fault in his face;
make your ear a door that welcomes his words.Nabi Though poetry stands high in rank,
seek the knowledge that brings benefit.Nizami Ganjavi A word can end a war, a word can heal a wound, a word can turn a poisoned meal into honey and butter.Yunus Emre Treasure and snake, rose and thorn, sorrow and joy are found together.Saadi Silence is the sea, speech is like a river. The sea is seeking you; do not seek the river.Rumi Be like water; knotless, slip free from the wound of the teeth. As long as I carry a knot, surely You will pound me and grind me.Rumi Thanks be to God, the reign of the world passes away; our name remains lasting on the page of the world.Baki The peace of both worlds is the commentary of these two words: generosity to friends, gentleness to enemies.Hafez When you see the created, you see the First and the Last, the Manifest and the Hidden.Ibn Arabi O eye, do not sprinkle the water of tears on the fires burning in my heart; for water is of no help to fires that blaze like this.Fuzuli Patience is of two kinds: patience with what you dislike and patience in keeping away from what you love.Ali ibn Abi Talib O heart, though the root of patience is bitter, when it is drunk in hope of union it goes down sweetly.Saadi If the turning of the sky did not go our way for two days, the state of time does not stay the same forever; do not grieve.Hafez Stop complaining and tell what has befallen you. Make your being a target for the arrow of affliction. Bear all torments with patience, and pray.Fuzuli They say a stone becomes a ruby in the station of patience; yes, it does, but with the blood of the liver.Hafez Whoever has no patience has no wisdom.Saadi To sip bitterness without a frown.Junayd al-Baghdadi The Real created hundreds of thousands of elixirs; man has seen no elixir like patience.Rumi Whoever does not look upon all created beings with the same eye, even if he is a professor teaching the people, is in truth a rebel.Yunus Emre The fly of the spirit fell into this eternal buttermilk:
neither Muslim, nor Christian, nor Magian, nor Jew.Rumi The children of Adam are limbs of one another;
for in creation they are of one essence.Saadi They are of two kinds: either your brother in faith or your equal in creation.Ali ibn Abi Talib Adam became the very polish of that mirror and the spirit of that form.Ibn Arabi Come, dear souls, let us be one
Let us strike the denier with the sword
Let us avenge the blood of Husayn
We have put our trust in God Most HighPir Sultan Abdal The friend is heedless, the sky merciless, time turns without rest.
Much pain, and no one to share it; the enemy strong, fortune weak.Fuzuli With a single word they set mountain-like ships in motion;
how lovely it is to agree on one word and become one tongue.Nabi The heart is God's throne, God looked upon the heart; whoever breaks a heart is wretched in both worlds.Yunus Emre Your love has taken me from me / It is you I need, youYunus Emre Do not think Niyazi's domain is only what is seen; his heart is a ruin in which a hidden treasure lies.Niyazi Misri My secret is not far from my lament; but eye and ear lack that light.Rumi When the mirror of the heart is cleansed and clear, you will see images beyond water and clay.Rumi For years the heart asked us for the cup of Jamshid; what it had itself, it begged of a stranger.Hafez Come, O heart, tell me what has become of you; while you were flourishing, why were you laid waste by love?Kaygusuz Abdal Through love bitter things turn sweet, through love copper turns to gold.Rumi Come, let us scatter roses and pour wine into the cup; let us split the roof of the sky and lay down a new design.Hafez Let me jumble letter, sound and word together, so that without these three I may converse with you.Rumi The outward form of dervishhood is a tattered robe and a shaven head; its truth is a living heart and a dead ego.Saadi If He is the pearl, the heart is His shell; the beloved and the soul follow one upon the other.Sheikh Galib I am the Real.Mansur al-Hallaj Death before death is safety, O young man; so did Mustafa command us.Rumi If I am I, what are you, O beloved? If you are you, what am I, wretched one?Fuzuli Kill me, kill me, O my trusted ones; in my being killed there is life within life.Mansur al-Hallaj Then I become nonexistence; nonexistence, like an organ, tells me: "To Him we shall return."Rumi This cry of the reed is fire, not wind; whoever lacks this fire, let him be nothing.Rumi Glory be to me; how great is my majesty.Bayazid Bastami I have tried it: my death is in life; when I am freed from this life, there is permanence.Rumi Look at the naked point, stripped of the garment of letters.Niyazi Misri Sufism is that the Real makes you die to yourself and brings you alive in Him.Junayd al-Baghdadi Go, go, O heart; I have begun to reveal my hidden secret. Love has come upon me, I cannot be patient, I am helpless.Kaygusuz Abdal I was dead, I came alive; I was weeping, I became laughter; the reign of love came, and I became an everlasting reign.Rumi