He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless.

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty.

Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

In the silence between your heartbeat bides a summons. Do you hear it? Name it if you must, or leave it forever nameless, but why pretend it is not there?

Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom.