When your love contracts in anger, the atmosphere itself feels threatening. But when you’re expansive, no matter what the weather, you’re in an open, windy field with friends.

The ground submits to the sky and suffers whatever comes. Tell me, is the Earth worse for giving in like that?

You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge.

Idle man, chases after fairy tales.

There is none dwelling in the house but God. When a man is awakened he melts and perishes.

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.