“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

“I want your sun to reach my raindrops, so your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.”

“I am your moon and your moonlight tooI am your flower garden and your water tooI have come all this way, eager for youWithout shoes or shawlI want you to laughTo kill all your worriesTo love youTo nourish you.”

“A mountain keeps an echo deep inside. That's how I hold your voice.”

“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.”

“When someone critises or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon.”

“Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.”