There is a voice that doesn’t use words, listen.

It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

The moment you accept what troubles you’ve been given, the door will open.

Keep silent, because the world of silence is a vast fullness. 

Why are you knocking at every door? Go, knock at the door of your own heart.

Whenever they rebuild an old building, they must first of all destroy the old one.

Peaceful is the one who’s not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

When you lose all sense of self, the bonds of a thousand chains will vanish.

Clean out your ears, don’t listen for what you already know.

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it. In their seeking, wisdom and madness are one and the same. On the path of love, friend and stranger are one and the same.

Whatever purifies you is the right path, I will not try to define it.

Gratitude is the wine for the soul. Go on. Get drunk.

I lost my hat while gazing at the moon, and then I lost my mind.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Lovers have heartaches that can’t be cured by drugs or sleep, or games, but only by seeing their beloved.

You have forgotten the One who doesn’t care about ownership, who doesn’t try to turn a profit from every human exchange.

My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit. I will meet you there.

Inside any deep asking is the answering.

All that you think is rain is not. Behind the veil angels sometimes weep.

Every need brings what’s needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, and the marvelous answer appears.

Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness.

Beyond the rightness or wrongness of things there is a field, I’ll meet you there.

Death has nothing to do with going away. The sun sets. The moon sets. But they are not gone.

Why do you stay in prison when the door is so wide open?