To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.
Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.
Try something different. Surrender.
We are pain and what cures pain, both. We are the sweet cold water and the jar that pours. I want to hold you close like a lute, so that we can cry out with loving. Would you rather throw stones at a mirror? I am your mirror and here are the stones.
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.