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.

The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes.

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.

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

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity &#39;til he has tasted adversity.

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.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hid and show what&#39;s hidden.

The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love.