Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.

Whatever others may say, they say it to deceive and comfort themselves, not help you.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

If you are good, they say you are weak.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

We built tall buildings, but we have not become any taller.

You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

A breeze, a forgotten summer, a smile, all can fit into a storefront window.

Death is easy. To live is the most painful thing I could imagine and I'm weak and no longer willing to fight.

Serious spiritual practice is more than serene walks in the woods, lit candles and incense. You have to be committed. You have to be willing to enter into your own darkness and transcend it.

Sufi poetry is, in a sense, self-help poetry about how to live a decent life, how to deal with your mortality.

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

Immigration comes up, but the issue that is on everybody's mind is the economy.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

What may create even more jobs is to develop more entrepreneurs, of course, ethical ones.

The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.

From the moment you entered this world of existence, a ladder was put in front of you so you could escape.

I wonder if one can view risk like a drug, beneficial to the organism in the proper dose. Too much or too little may be harmful.