Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don't you?
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.
A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home.
Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.
The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you. Don’t go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don’t go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round and open. Don’t go back to sleep!
Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absentminded. Someone sober will worry about things going badly. Let the lover be.
The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
You’re water. We’re the millstone. You’re wind. We’re dust blown up into shapes. You’re spirit. We’re the opening and closing of our hands. You’re the clarity. We’re the language that tries to say it. You’re joy. We’re all the different kinds of laughing.
I am smiling at myself today There’s no wish left in this heart Or perhaps there is no heart left Free from all desire I sit quietly like Earth My silent cry echoes like thunder Throughout the universe I am not worried about it I know it will be heard by no one Except me.