The very center of your heart is where life begins. The most beautiful place on earth.

I am smiling at myself today There's no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me.

Know mankind well, don't degrade every man as evil, and don't exalt every man thinking he is good. He who cannot discover himself; cannot discover the world.

I once had a thousand desires. But in my one desire to know you all else melted away.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

Don't put blankets over the drum! Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.