Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!

Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we’re lying. If we say No, we don’t see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure of anything, Beside ourselves, and only that, so Miraculous beings come running to help. Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, We shall be saying finally, With tremendous eloquence, Lead us. When we have totally surrendered to that beauty, We shall be a mighty kindness.

We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.

The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see.

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