Love resides not in science and learning, scrolls and pages; whatever men chatter about, that way is not the lovers’ way.
Know that the branch of Love is in pre-eternity and its roots in post-eternity; this tree rests not upon heaven and earth, upon legs.
We have deposed reason and circumscribed passion, for such majesty is not appropriate to this reason and these habits.
So long as you are desirous, know that this desire of yours is an idol; when you have become beloved, after that there is no existence for the desirous.
The mariner is always upon the planks of fear and hope; once planks and mariner have passed away, nothing remains but drowning.
Shams-i Tabr¯ız¯ı, you are at once sea and pearl, for your being entirely is naught but the secret of the Creator.
