I am so small I can barely be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things.
Don't try to steer the boat. Don't open shop for yourself. Listen. Keep silent. You are not God's mouthpiece. Try to be an ear, And if you do speak, ask for explanations.
Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.
Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
There is a basket of fresh bread on your head, yet you go door to door asking for crusts.
There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same! Jesus was lost in his love for God. His donkey was drunk with barley.
Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.
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. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.
This poetry. I never know what I’m going to say. I don’t plan it. When I’m outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all.
There's no one with intelligence in this town except that man over there playing with the children, the one riding the stick horse. He has keen, fiery insight and vast dignity like the night sky, but he conceals it in the madness of child's play.
Wash yourself of yourself.
Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone?