The snow and the storm destroy the flower; but its seed they cannot kill.

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

Sit by me, my beloved, and listen to my heart; smile, for your happiness is a symbol of our future.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.