Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.

The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full.

It's your road & yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul.

Passion is present when a man can distinguish between the wine and the container. Two men see a loaf of bread. One hasn't eaten anything for ten days. The other has eaten five times a day, every day. He sees the shape of the loaf. The other man with his urgent need sees inside into the taste, and into the nourishment the bread could give. Be that hungry, to see within all beings the Friend.

Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun.