“He who tastes not, knows not.”
“Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep.”
“Today, let us swim wildly, joyously in gratitude.”
“Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.”
“Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.”
“Inside you there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.”
“However much I might try to expound or explain Love, when I come to Love itself, I am ashamed of my explanations... Love alone can explain the mysteries of love and lovers.”
“Silenceis an ocean. Speech is a river.When the ocean is searching for you, don't walkinto the language-river. Listen to the ocean,and bring your talky business to an end.Traditional words are just babblingin that presence, and babbling is a substitutefor sight.”
“Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.”
“You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.”
“If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.”
“Your name is upon my tongue your image is in my sight your memory is in my heart where can I send these words that I write ?”
“In this earth,in this immaculate field,we shall not plant any seedsexcept for compassion,except for love.”
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”
“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.”
“The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter.”
“Fasting is the first principle of medicine.”
“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence.”
“Lamps are different, but light is the same.”
“Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings.... Leave and don't look away from the sun as you go, in whose light you're sometimes crescent, sometimes full.”
“Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!”
“Open to me, so that I may open.Provide me your inspirationSo that I might see mine.”
“Now I am sober and there's only the hangover and the memory of love.”
“Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.”
“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river.”
