If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn’t slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn’t you know?

Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?

Learn to speak by listening.

From "Wetness and Water" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest.

How do I know who I am or where I am? How could a single wave locate itself in an ocean.

The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that.

The heart is cooking a pot of food for you. Be patient until it is cooked