A Secret Freedom Opens Through

We Must Die To Become True Human Beings.

The Ear Participates, And Helps Arrange Marriages; The Eye Has Already Made Love With What It Sees. The Eye Knows Pleasure, Delights In The Body's Shape: The Ear Hears Words That Talk About All This. When Hearing Takes Place, Character Areas Change; But When You See, Inner Areas Change. If All You Know About Fire Is What You Have Heard See If The Fire Will Agree To Cook You! Certain Energies Come Only When You Burn. If You Long For Belief, Sit Down In The Fire! When The Ear Receives Subtly; It Turns Into An Eye. But If Words Do Not Reach The Ear In The Chest, Nothing Happens.

When You Eventually See Through The Veils To How Things Really Are, You Will Keep Saying Again And Again, This Is Certainly Not Like We Thought It Was.

At Night, I Open The Window And Ask The Moon To Come And Press Its Face Against Mine. Breathe Into Me. Close The Language-door And Open The Love-window. The Moon Won't Use The Door, Only The Window.

Hungry, You're A Dog, Angry And Bad-natured. Having Eaten Your Fill, You Become A Carcass; You Lie Down Like A Wall, Senseless. At One Time A Dog, At Another Time A Carcass, How Will You Run With Lions, Or Follow The Saints?