Land of the rising sun

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.

I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.

Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.

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.

Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever.

Love will find its way through all languages on its own.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know 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.

There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the ground; there are a thousand ways to go home again.