Be motivated like the falcon, hunt gloriously. Be magnificent as the leopard, fight to win. Spend less time with nightingales and peacocks. One is all talk, the other only color.

Then outwardly you are the small universe! Then inwardly you are the great universe.

And don't think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It's quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.

You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky.

Smiles come best from those who weep.

Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.

When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden.