Make my heart, O heart of the universe, a divine bird that nests only on the throne of God..

What is the heart? It is not human and it is not imaginary. I call it you..

I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft..

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveller, if you are in sea….

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun….

You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in….

The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?.

I never really cared for the things of this world. It was the glow of Your Presence that filled it with beauty..

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame..

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself..

I drank water from your spring and felt the current take me..

Your eyelashes will write on my heart the poem that could never come from the pen of a poet..

The core of the seen and unseen universe smiles, but remember smiles come best from those who weep. Lightning, then the rain-laughter..

When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind.

There is a field beyond all notions of right and wrong. Come, meet me there..

Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you..

Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peac….

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give..

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty..

Oh, wandering One, if you are in search of the greatest treasure, don't look outside. Look within, and seek That..

Every rose that is sweet-scented within, That rose is telling of the secrets of the Universal..