Mystery is part of each life, and maybe it is healthier to uphold it than to spend a lifetime in search of half-made answers.

I resented my mother for guessing my innermost secrets. She was like God, everywhere at once knowing everything.

There is a geography of the human spirit, common to all peoples.

Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

Let's kneel down through all the worlds of the body like lovers. I know I am a tree and full of life and I know you, you are the flying one and will leave. But can't we swallow the sweetness and can't you sing in my arms and sleep in the human light of the sun and moon I have been drinking alone.

The crocodile doesn't harm the bird that cleans his teeth for him. He eats the others but not that one.