The sky itself reels with Love.
Here’s the new rule: break the wineglass, and fall toward the glassblower’s breath.
Don’t worry about saving these songs! And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn’t matter. We have fallen into the place where everything is music. The strumming and the flute notes rise into the atmosphere, and even if the whole world’s harps should burn up, there will still be hidden instruments playing.
Like crystals, they sparkle with rainbow colors and contain worlds inside.
Do you make regular visits to yourself?
Dear soul, if you were not friends with the vast nothing inside, why would you always be casting your net into it, and waiting so patiently?
Be still! Be quiet! Find acquaintance with silence. Go inside, delve into your heart. Take a day off from the clamour.
You suppose you are the trouble. But you are the cure. You suppose that youare the lock on the door. But you are the key that opens it.
Do not look at my outward shape, But take what is in my hand.
No need to announce the future! This now is it. This. Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by the moment’s energy here in your hand.
Why think separately of this life and the next when one is born from the last...
How often are treasures unearthed beneath the comfort of your house? Treasures are rather always found lying among old ruins.
Make yourself a simpleton and follow the saint: You will find salvation only by being a simpleton. Hence, oh father, that king of men, the Prophet said, ‘Most of the people of Paradise are simpletons.’ Since cleverness is your pride, become a simpleton so that your heart may remain healthy. Not a simpleton warped by buffoonery, but one distraught and bewildered in God.
Plunge headfirst into the ocean of your loving. Then look around patiently for the pearl that is yours.”28.
Your deepest need and desire is satisfied by this moment’s energy here in your hand.
I say that the exclusivity of most of the organized religions does insult the soul. We must be open enough to assimilate the insights of indigenous cultures as well as those of the Abrahamic religions, to glory in the clarity of Rinzai and Bodhidharma as well as that of the dreamtime drawings.
God lives between a human being and the object of his desire.
Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey to the ocean of meanings. Leave and don’t look away from the sun as you go.
Forgive me, that I cannot sleep; forgive The thirsty ones that they have no water. Forgive: if you never know forgiveness, You’ll never know the blessings that God gives.
I have no peace, in this world or any other.