In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring.
If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?
Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open.
Fasting blinds the body in order to open the eyes of your soul.
Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.
If your knowledge of fire has been turned to certainty by words alone, then seek to be cooked by the fire itself. Don't abide in borrowed certainty. There is no real certainty until you burn; if you wish for this, sit down in the fire.