No sickness worse than imagining thyself to be perfect can afflict thy soul.

True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.

If in the darkness of ignorance, you don’t recognize a person’s true nature, look to see whom he has chosen for his leader.

What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

For the water animals, the ocean is like a garden; for the land animals, it is death and pain.

This dance is the joy of existence.