What hurts the soul? To live without tasting the water of its own essence.

Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

Limp along until your legs are spent, and you fall flat and your energy is drained. Then the grace of the Divine will lift you.

All your restlessness is out of your desire for stillness Just desire restlessly, then, love will fill and still you. All your unhealthiness is out of your desire for health, Just abandon health, then, even poison will heal you.

If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.