The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

As I've gotten older, I find I am able to be nourished more by sorrow and to distinguish it from depression.

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

In the sibling society, both the adult and the elder get lost, and no one knows where they are.

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.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

There is no hierarchy in Japanese Buddhist poetry.