Good old quotes

A few of my favorites...

From Kashf al Mahjub
“When Moses conversed with God, he asked, “Lord, where shall I seek You?” God answered, “Among the brokenhearted.” Moses continued, “But, Lord, no heart could be more despairing than mine.” And God replied, “Then I am where you are.”

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Nasr, naturally ;)
"Reason, once divorced from the guiding light of the intellect, can at best confirm the existence of the noumena, of the reality of the essence of things. But reason alone cannot know the essence itself. The knowledge that is essential is one that is ultimately based on the identity of the knower and the known, on the known being consumed by the fire of knowledge itself"

"To claim to know the human psyche without the aid of the Spirit and to claim a finality for this knowledge as 'truly scientific', independent of any other form of knowledge, cannot but result in the very impasse which in fact the modern world faces today. It can only end in a truncated and incomplete, not to say outright erroneous, 'science of man', which is asked to play a role for which it has no competence. Such a science is most often more dangerous than ignorance pure and simple, for there is nothing more dangerous than simple ignorance except an ignorance which has pretensions to being knowledge and wisdom"

Khalil Gibran
'Be very careful
what you set your heart upon,
for you will surely have it.'

Outlandish:
"I'm out to fight the devil but never fought myself
Read a thousand books but never read myself
My souls starving it needs to be fed lord I need your help
Hell with the devil my biggest enemy's myself"

Charles Gai Eaton (from Islam and the Destiny of Man)
"...our natural feelings must never be taken out of their proper sphere and elevated to the rank of philosophical principles. The fact that I am sad does not mean that the world is out of kilter, the fact that I have been hurt does not mean that God is unjust, and the fact that my personal life may have been darkened by tragedy does not mean that no sun shines upon creation. It is when emotion is transposed to a different dimension that we have a 'problem of suffering' and this, precisely, is what has happened in our time"

2pac
It's time for us as a people to start makin' some changes. Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live and let's change the way we treat each other. You see the old way wasn't working so it's on us to do what we gotta do to survive.

Attar (from Conference of the Birds)
"And he who does not seek is like a wall, Dead, blank and bland, no living man at all; He is, God pardon me, a walking skin, A picture with no life or soul within. If you discover in your quest a jewel, Do not, like some delighted doting fool. Gloat over it - search on, you're not its slave; It is not treasures by the way you crave. To make an idol of the gems you find Is to be drunk, to cloud the searching mind-- At this first glass your soul should not submit; Seek out the wine-press of the infinite."

Imam Ghazali, my hero. despite my-issues-with-his-issues-with-women
"To prove that it is not men who make religion true,
we must prove that religion can make men true"

Ibn al-Arabi:
"Whoever binds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected by the negativities of constant objections. Certainty, (al-yaqin) does not derive from the evidences of the mind but pours out from the depths of the heart"

Rumi
"Leave all worries behind and make your heart totally pure, like the face of a mirror with no image or design. Once your heart is cleansed of all images, it will contain them all.."

"look at spirit
how it fuses with earth
giving it new life
why are you so busy
with this or that or good or bad
pay attention to how things blend
why talk about all
the known and the unknown
see how the unknown merges into the known
why think seperately
of this life and the next
when one is born from the last
look at your heart and tongue
one feels but deaf and dumb
the other speaks in words and signs
look at water and fire
earth and wind
enemies and friends all at once
the wolf and the lamb
the lion and the deer
far away yet together
look at the unity of this
spring and winter
manifested in the equinox
you too must mingle my friends
since the earth and the sky
are mingled just for you and me
be like sugarcane
sweet yet silent
don't get mixed up with bitter words
my beloved grows
right out of my own heart
how much more union can there be"

Seek "Satisfaction (rida) with God and independence of mankind."
-abu hazim al-madani

Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore has some AWESOME poetry by the way... here's a little example:
this is from his poem called "The Mystery of Someone Sleeping"

.."but sleepers their faces tell no story unless
scarred
they are in a bliss they maybe don't
feel when awakre they're in
God's hands as if
cradled there
ebbing and flowing
puppeted by their sleepy breathing
and I wondered at what the
sleeping face of Cleopatra must've looked like
or sleeping Jesus
all extroverted moonlight
beauty in its essence molding
a perfect face from inside
even these faces actaully beautiful and as if
carved from within..."