“Know the world from end to end is a mirror;in each atom a hundred suns are concealed.If you pierce the heart of a single drop of water,from it will flow a hundred clear oceans;if you look intently at each speck of dust,in it you will see a thousand beings.A gnat in its limbs is like an elephant;in name a drop of water resembles the Nile.In the heart of a barleycorn is stored a hundred harvests.Within a millet-seed a world exists.In an insects wing is an ocean of life.A heaven is concealed in the pupil of an eye.The core at the center of the heart is small,yet the Lord of both worlds will enter there.”

“Penetrate the heart of just one drop of water, and you will be flooded by a hundred oceans.”

“There was a water-drop, it joined the sea,A speck of dust, it was fused with earth;what of your entering and leaving this world?A fly appeared, and disappeared.”

“If the eye of the heart is open, in each atom there will be one hundred secrets.”

“He slipped away slowly, withdrawing from this world by small, imperceptible degrees, and in the end it was as ifhe were a drop of water evaporating in the sun, shrinking and shrinking until at last he wasn’t there anymore.”

“I know the sky falls down every day. The sun drops into the ocean and splashes browns and reds and yellows and oranges into the world outside my window. A million leaves from a hundred different branches dip in the wind, fluttering with the false promise of flight. The gust catches their withered wings only to force them downward, forgotten, left to be trampled by the soldiers stationed just below.”