IGNORANCE I didn’t know love would make me this crazy, with my eyes like the river Ceyhun carrying me in its rapids out to sea,where every bit of shattered boat sinks to the bottom. An alligator lifts its head and swallows the ocean, then the ocean floor becomes a desert covering the alligator in sand drifts. Changes do happen. I do not know how, or what remains of what has disappeared into the absolute. I hear so many stories and explanations, but I keep quiet, because I don’t know anything, and because something I swallowed in the ocean has made me completely content with ignorance.

You think the shadow is the substance.

Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.

The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!

Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

Each moment contains a hundred messages from God.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.