Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.

Dance from here to the other world-and don't stop.

Be suspicious of what you want.

My souls sits in silence, and then asks again, where are you in all of this?

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad.

There cannot be self-restraint in the absence of desire: when there is no adversary, what avails thy courage? Hark, do not castrate thyself, do not become a monk: chastity depends on the existence of lust.