朝阳之地

Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

Listen! Clam up your mouth and be silent like an oyster shell, for that tongue of yours is the enemy of the soul, my friend. When the lips are silent, the heart has a hundred tongues.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

May these vows and this marriage be blessed.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!

When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine.

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.