Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.

Be kind and honest, and harmful poisons will turn sweet inside you.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

You have been hiding so long aimlessly drifting in the sea of my love Even so You have always been connected to me Connected, revealed in the known in the unmanifest I am life itself

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

Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss.

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