With every breath, I plant the seeds of devotion, I am a farmer of the heart.

Each and every part of the world is a snare for the fool and a means of deliverance for the wise.

Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.

Speak little, learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.

Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game.

Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core.

Your real "country" is where you're heading, not where you are.