Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys, these worlds that you keep reaching for, hoping they will make you more alive?

Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God.

All because of love when it arrived my temporal life from then on changed to eternal

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

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

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.