from books and from what the teacher says,collecting information from the traditional sciencesas well as from the new sciences.With such intelligence you rise in the world.You get ranked ahead or behind othersin regard to your competence in retaininginformation. You stroll with this intelligencein and out of fields of knowledge, getting always moremarks on your preserving…
There is a broken- open place in a lover.Where are those qualities of bravery andsharp compassion in this group? What’s theuse of old and frozen thought?I want a howling hurt. This is not a treasurywhere gold is stored; this is for copper.We alchemists look for talent thatcan heat up and change.Lukewarm won’t do. Halfhearted holding…
Behold, the Marquis of Glee has attainted felicity; this city andplain are filled with soldiers and drums and flags.If I encounter a wolf, he becomes moonfaced Joseph; if I godown into a well, it converts into a Garden of Eram.He whose heart is as iron and stone out of miserliness is nowchanged before me into…
Let us go prostrating to the sea like a torrent, then let us go foaming upon the face of the sea.Let us journey from this street of mourning to the wedding feast, let us go from this saffron face to the face of the Judas tree blossom.Trembling like a leaf and twig from fear of…
I am troubled by the onewhose face has the color of spring flowers.I have neither sleep nor patience,neither a good reputation nor disgrace.A thousand robes of wisdom are gone.All my good manners have moved a thousand miles away.The heart and the mind are left angry with each other.The stars and the moon are envious of…
might do all right floating with the currentwhile humming in thenow.Thoughif one log is tied to a camel,who is also heading south along the bank – at the same pace-all could still be wellwith theworldunless the camelthinks he forgot something, andabruptly turns upstream,thenuh-oh.Most mindsdo not live in the presentand can stick to a reasonable plan;…
as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.’
This is notgrief or joy.Not a judging state,or an elation,or sadness.Those come and go.This is the presence that doesn’t.
There is nothing in the universe that you are notEverything you want, look for it within yourself-you are that.
cloudcover thick. I try to stayjust above the surface,yet I’m already underand living with the ocean
