1. “Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere.
They’re in each other all along.”
2. “This is love: to fly toward
a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of
life. Finally, to take a step without feet.”
3. “Your task is not to seek for
love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you
have built against it.”
4. “A thousand half-loves must be
forsaken to take one whole heart home.”
5. “However much we describe and
explain love, when we fall in love we are ashamed of our words.”
6. “Love is the bridge between you
and everything.”
7. “If you find me not within you,
you will never find me. For I have been with you, from the beginning of me.”
8. “Explanation by the tongue makes
most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer.”
9. “Reason is powerless in the
expression of Love.”
10. “Only from the heart can you
touch the sky.”
11. “Let the beauty of what you
love be what you do.”
12. “I am yours. Don’t give myself
back to me.”
13. “When I am with you, we stay
up all night. When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep. Praise God
for those two insomnias! And the difference between them.”
14. “I want to see you. Know
your voice. Recognize you when you first come ’round the
corner. Sense your scent when I come into a room you’ve just
left. Know the lift of your heel, the glide of your foot. Become
familiar with the way you purse your lips then let them part, just the
slightest bit, when I lean in to your space and kiss you. I want
to know the joy of how you whisper ‘more.'”
15. “In your light I learn how
to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where
no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
16. “Goodbyes are only for those
who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there
is no such thing as separation.”
17. “Two there are who are never
satisfied — the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.”
18. “Wherever you are, and
whatever you do, be in love.”
19. “Let yourself be silently
drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you
astray.”
20. “Out beyond ideas of
wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I’ll meet you there.”
