“It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.”

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

The arms of love encompass you with your present, your past, your future, the arms of love gather you together.

Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

It is such a secret place, the land of tears.

No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

No individual is isolated. He who is sad, saddens others.

But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.

To live is to be slowly born.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love’s opposite.

It is such a mysterious place, the land of tears.

And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Night, when words fade and things come alive.

If you love a flower that lives on a star, it is sweet to look at the sky at night. All the stars are a-bloom with flowers.

You cannot plant an acorn in the morning, and expect that afternoon to sit in the shade of an oak.

You gonna do somethin’? or are you just gonna stand there and bleed?

I wish is code for I don’t want to do anything differently.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Forgiveness is a complex concept. We must understand it thoroughly to be able to internalize it.

I’m not a person who defends myself very often. I kind of let my actions speak for me.

Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.