This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

Sit with lovers and choose their state. Do not stay long with those who are not living in the heart.

You have been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under and deeper under, a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely.

That hurt we embrace becomes joy. Call it to your arms where it can change.

I looked for God. I went to a temple and I didn't find him there. Then I went to a church and I didn't find him there. The I went to a mosque and I didn't find him there. Then finally I looked in my heart and there he was.

People of the world don't look at themselves, and so they blame one another.

There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?