“Poetry reveals that there is no empty space.”

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

I know you have a hundred complex cases against God in court, but never mind, let’s just get out of this mess.

I am a hole in a flute that the Christ’s breath moves through. Listen to this music.

Think of suffering as being washed.

The sun will stand as your best man And whistle When you have found the courage To marry forgiveness When you have found the courage to marry Love.

I am happy even before I have a reason.

Love is simply creation’s greatest joy.

Sing because this is a food our starving world needs. Laugh because that is the purest sound.

The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.

All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.

Only a Perfect One who is always laughing at the word two can make you know of Love.

Everyone, whether he is self-denying or self-indulgent, is seeking after the Beloved. Every place may be the shrine of love, whether it be mosque or synagogue.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

When all your desires are distilled; You will cast just two votes: To love more, And be happy.

Be kind to your sleeping heart. Take it out into the vast fields of light…And let it breathe.

You have actually waltzed with tremendous style, my sweet, O my sweet, crushed angel.

To know yourself you need not go to any book, to any priest, to any psychologist. The whole treasure is within yourself.

Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren’t.

It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.

Common sense is almost as omniscient as God.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

We never love a person, but only qualities.

Does not Eternity appear dreadful to you. I often get to thinking of it and it seems so dark to me that I almost wish there was no Eternity. To think that we must forever live and never cease to be. It seems as if Death would be a relief to so endless a state of existence.

It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm.