Land of the rising sun

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Don&#39;t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.