I went everywhere with longing
in my eyes, until here
in my own house

I felt truth
filling my eyes.

~ Lalla

Awareness cleaned my mind
to a polished mirroring.

The presence came near, and I knew
that That was everything,
and I nothing.

~ Lalla

The only offering you can make to God
is your increasing awareness.

~ Lalla

Everything is new now for me.
My mind is new, the moon, the sun.
The whole world looks rinsed with water,
washed in the rain of I am That.
Lalla leaps and dances inside the energy
that creates and sustains the universe.

~ Lalla

I, Lalla, entered the jasmine garden,
where Shiva and Shakti were making love.
I dissolved into them,
and what is this
to me, now?
I seem to be here,
but really I'm walking
in the jasmine garden.

~ Lalla

There are some demons dangerous

to your soul: lust, anger.

But there's a way to kill them.

Feed them meditation only,

and clear awareness, and you'll see

the illusion of what they control.

~ Lalla

When you eat too much,
you forget your truth,
and fasting makes you conceited,
so eat with some discipline,
and consciously. Be
an ordinary human being.
Then the door will open,
and you'll recognize the way.
Lalla, be moderate!
- Lalla

Fearful, always-moving mind,
the One who has no beginning
is thinking of how hunger
may fall away from you.
No ritual,
no religion,
is needed.
Just cry out one
unobstructed cry.
- Lalla

That one is blessed and at peace
who doesn't hope, to whom
desire makes no more loans.
Nothing coming, nothing owed.
- Lalla