You are persecuted and despised. It were better that a person should be the oppressed than that he should be the oppressor; and fitter that he should be a victim to the frailty of human instincts than that he should be powerful and crush the flowers of life and disfigure the beauties of feeling with his desire.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

For love is sufficient unto love.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.

The mute grain turns to love songs when swallowed by the nightingale.

And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

If we were to all sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality.