In my heart you are the mirthful ray

Even though in anger you depart a hundred thousand yearsfrom me, in the end you will come to me, for I am your goal.Did I not say to you, “Be not content with worldly forms, for Iam the fashioner of the tabernacle of your contentment? ”Did I not say to you, “I am the sea…

For the sake of Solomon’s seal I became wax in all my body,and in order to become illumined I rubbed my wax.I saw his opinion and cast away my own twisted opinion; Ibecame his reed pipe and likewise lamented on his lip.He was in my hand, and blindly I groped for him with myhand; I…

When stars wheelaround the North Pole,they are longing for our growing consciousness.Wine got drunk with us,not the other way.The body developed out of us, not we from it.We are bees,and our body is a honeycomb.We madethe body, cell by cell we made it.translated by Robert Bly

Of this death-night.Let the mill turn with your grieving.But stay clear. Don’t fallinto the river with me.There’s no way out,no cure but death.Last night in a dream I saw an old manstanding in a garden.It was all Love.He held out his hand and said,Come toward me.If there is a dragon on this path,that old man…