Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

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

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language.

What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from that leaping. I've lived too long where I can be reached.

Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.

And if you are a rose, I am rose-shadow.