“Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity?Why would you refuse to givethis joy to anyone?Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups!They swim the huge fluid freedom.”

“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death for rage and anger. Be like the Earth for modesty. Appear as you are. Be as you appear.”

“With passion pray. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?”

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.”

“When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.”

“When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.”

“Suddenly the drunken sweetheart appeared out of my door.She drank a cup of ruby wine and sat by my side.Seeing and holding the lockets of her hairMy face became all eyes, and my eyes all hands.”