Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring.
And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work.
The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart
A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice.
Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched.
You are the fountain of the sun. I'm the shadow of a willow. You fall upon my forehead. I melt. You slip into my heart. It spills open. You surround me with such sweetness. I make it my home.