Love courses through all things. . . . No, It is all things. How deny It when nothing else exists? What has appeared – if not for Love – would not have been. All has appeared from Love, through Love, and Love courses through it. . . . No, all of it is Love. (p. 84)

I saw my Lord with the eye of the Lord. I asked 'Who art Thou?' and He answered 'Thou.

I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place;I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.(p. 72)

The more I gazeat Your face, the moremy eyes inclinetoward Your visionlike one who dies of thirstby the ocean shore,lips to the wave,thirstier and thirstier.

If You are Everythingthen who are all these people?And if I am nothingwhat's all this noise about?You are Totality,everything is You. Agreed.Then that which is "other-than-You"-what is it?Oh, indeed I know:Nothing exists but You...

Majnun may gaze at Layla‘s beauty, but this Layla is only a mirror […] God with Majnun‘s eye looks upon His own beauty in Layla, and through Majnun He loves Himself.

Each image paintedon the canvas of existenceis the form of the artist himself.Eternal Oceanspews forth new waves.„Waves“ we call them;but there is only the Sea.(p. 77)

To the eye of the true Witness, no more than One is to be seen – but since this One Face shows Itself in two mirrors,each mirror will display a different face. (p. 73)

The Lama‘at of Iraqi belongs to a particular type of Sufi literature in which the purest doctrines of gnosis (al-ma‘rifah) were expressed in the language of love (al-mahabbah).

The more I gazeat Your face, the moremy eyes inclinetoward Your visionlike one who dies of thirstby the ocean shore,lips to the wave,thfrstier and thirstier.