“Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.”

“There is little one can say about love. It has to be lived, and it's always in motion.”

“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.”

“As you live Deeper in the Heart, the Mirror gets clearer and cleaner.”

“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”

“Oh my friend, all that you see of me is a shell, the rest belongs to love.”

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”