Attar of Nishapur - Love Quotes

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A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control.

Attar of Nishapur

He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.

Attar of Nishapur

From each a mystic silence Love demands.
What do all seek so earnestly? 'Tis Love.
What do they whisper to each other? Love.
Love is the subject of their inmost thoughts.
In Love no longer "thou" and "I" exist,
For Self has passed away in the Beloved.

Attar of Nishapur

Joy! Joy! I triumph! Now no more I know
Myself as simply me. I burn with love
Unto myself, and bury me in love.
The centre is within me and its wonder
Lies as a circle everywhere about me.
Joy! Joy! No mortal thought can fathom me.

Attar of Nishapur

A thousand for his love expired each day, And those who saw his face, in blank dismay Would rave and grieve and mourn their lives away- To die for love of that bewitching sight Was worth a hundred lives without his light. None could survive his absence patiently, None could endure this king's proximity- How strange it was that man could neither brook The presence nor the absence of his look!

Attar of Nishapur

The fruit of love's great tree is poverty; Whoever knows this knows humility.

Attar of Nishapur