Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

In your light I learn how to love.

I long to escape the prison of my ego and lose myself in You.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Let the beauty we love do what we do.

There is an unseen sweetness in the stomach’s emptiness. We are lutes. When the sound box is filled, no music can come forth. When the brain and the belly burn from fasting, every moment a new song rises out of the fire. The mists clear, and a new vitality makes you spring up the steps before you . . .