“And he misses herLike a wind starved sailHe sits knowing what direction to goBut the current keeps pulling him Down river.”

“IGNORANCEI didn’t know love would make me thiscrazy, with my eyeslike the river Ceyhuncarrying me in its rapidsout to sea,where every bitof shattered boatsinks to the bottom.An alligator lifts its head and swallowsthe ocean, then the oceanfloor becomesa desert coveringthe alligator insand drifts.Changes dohappen. I do not know how,or what remains of whathas disappearedinto the absolute.I hear so many storiesand explanations, but I keep quiet,because I don’t know anything,and because something I swallowedin the oceanhas made me completely contentwith ignorance.”

“What matters is how quickly you do what your soul directs.”

“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.”

“Love is a river. Drink from it.”

“You have been walking the ocean's edge,holding up your robes to keep them dry.You must dive naked under and deeper under,a thousand times deeper. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes.Tell me, is the earth worse for giving in like that?Do not put blankets over the drum.Open completely.”

“The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.”