"Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself."

"We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust."

"Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear."

"Be empty of worrying.Think of who created thought!Why do you stay in prisonWhen the door is so wide open?"

"There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?"

"Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure."

"You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"

"If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"

"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free."

"This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief."

"You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness. You were born with wings. You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly."

"Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
yet you worry what people are saying."

"If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it."

"When someone beats a rug,the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."

"I choose to love you in silence…For in silence I find no rejection,I choose to love you in loneliness…For in loneliness no one owns you but me,I choose to adore you from a distance…For distance will shield me from pain,I choose to kiss you in the wind…For the wind is gentler than my lips,I choose to hold you in my dreams…For in my dreams, you have no end."

"Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being."

"God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one"

"I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you."

"I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.The power of love came into me,and I became fierce like a lion,then tender like the evening star."

"That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."

"I know you're tired but come, this is the way."

"A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home."