"Unfold your own myth, / without complicated explanation, / so everyone will understand / the passage, / we have opened you / Start walking toward Shams." —"Who Are These Two?" page 11

"You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine." —"The Whole Catastrophe," page 17

"The miracle of Jesus is himself, not / what he said or did / about the future. Forget the future. / I'd worship someone who could do that!" —"Rise Up Nimbly and Go On Your Strange Journey," page 26

"Today, like every other day, we wake up empty / and frightened. Don't open the door to the study / and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument. / Let the beauty we love be what we do. / There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the...