Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

Wherever there is water there is someone drowning.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?