Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry roads to the shore.

We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect.

This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!

Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory are much too small a place to live, every human being streams at night into the loving nowhere, or during the day, in some absorbing work.

Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.

God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant.

A lover in life will be a lover in death, a lover in the tomb, a lover in paradise, a lover on the day of resurrection.