Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

Without you the instruments would die. One sits close beside you. Another takes a long kiss. The tambourine begs, Touch my skin so I can be myself. Let me feel you enter each limb bone by bone, that what died last night can be whole today. Why live some soberer way, and feel you ebbing out? I won't do it. Either give me enough wine or leave me alone, now that I know how it is to be with you in constant conversation.

Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

Appear as you are, or be as you appear.

Purify yourself from the attributes of self, so that you may see your own pure, untarnished essence.

The thirsty look for water, but water also looks for thirsty.

I am the glorious sun, the ocean laden with pearls. Within my heart is the grandeur of heaven.