Sow a seed and the earth will yield you a flower. Dream your dream to the sky and it will bring you your beloved.

For this I bless you most. You give much and know not that you give at all.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

When love beckons to you, follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Said one oyster to a neighboring oyster, "I have a very great pain within me. It is heavy and round and I am in distress." And the other oyster replied with haughty complacence, "Praise be to the heavens and to the sea, I have no pain within me. I am well and whole both within and without." At that moment a crab was passing by and heard the two oysters, and he said to the one who was well and whole both within and without, "Yes, you are well and whole; but the pain that your neighbor bears is a pearl of exceeding beauty."