I am like the candle: burning only makes me brighter.
He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
Imagining is like feeling around in a dark lane. You are the truth from foot to brow.Now, what else would you like to know?
Be patient. /Respond to every call that excites your spirit.
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest, where no one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don't really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate?
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Don't turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That's where the light enters you.
Every object, every being, is a jar full of delight.
Excuse my wandering.
Flow down and down in always/widening rings of being.
I am in the House of Mercy, and my heart is a place of prayer.
I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.
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