Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.

The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance.

Outside ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Love's creed is separate from all religions.

I am a drunkard from another kind of tavern. I dance to a silent tune. I am the symphony of stars.

Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone.

If you have no eyes, do not walk blindly; take a staff in your hand. If you have no staff of insight, do not walk without a guide.