Sadness to me is the happiest time, When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind. Those times when I'm silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe.

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

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Practice patience; it is the essence of praise. Have patience, for that is true worship. No other worship is worth as much. Have patience; patience is the key to all relief.

Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight.

Lightning, your presence from ground to sky, no one knows what becomes of me, when you take me so quickly.

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.