I am an ark in the swift flood of time, and my companions, a fellowship. Who throws in with us sails into light.

If you put on shoes that are too tight and walk out across an empty plain, you will not feel the freedom of the place unless you take off your shoes. Your shoe-constriction has you confined. At night before sleeping you take off the tight shoes, and your soul releases into a place it knows. Dreams glide deeper.

When love first tasted the lips of being human, it started singing.

People who repress desires often turn, suddenly, into hypocrites.

They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

When you resolve to become pious, the devil in your nature cries out at you, "Tread not those paths, O confused one; distress and poverty will overcome you. You will be despised, let down by friends, you will regret it." Dread of the devil has bound their souls; the cries of the devil are the drover of the damned; the call of the Lord is a guardian of the saints.

If you want money more than anything, you'll be bought and sold your whole life.