“Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.”

Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water.

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.

So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.

The same old sins take possession of him again. He is hardly out of the waters before they fall upon him.

But it is not sufficient to bind him again into the world.

Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish.

Because of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.

An ocean of bliss may rain down from the heavens, but if you hold up only a thimble, that is all you receive

He whose mind dwells on God. But this is not possible as long as one has egotism and vanity.

When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low.

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited.

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, you will find nothing (no true religion) anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here (i .e . in one ‘s own heart.)

A truly religious man should think that other religions also have many paths leading to the truth.

When dawn comes, that memory gradually distances…Tonight, I will bring it to sleep with me, so that will not be taken away by the waves of the night.

Across the curve of the earth, there are women getting up before dawn, in the blackness before the point of light, in the twilight before sunrise; there are women rising earlier than men and children to break the ice, to start the stove, to put up the pap.

The petroDollar system breaking down, where oil is no longer paid for in Dollars internationally.

We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister?

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.