When love beckons to you follow himThough his ways are hard and steep.And When his wings enfold you yield to himThough the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And When he speaks to you believe in himThough his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden...But if in your fear you would seek only loves peace and loves pleasureThen it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out ofloves threshing-floorInto the seasonless world where you shall laugh but not all of your laughter and weep but not all of your tears...But if you love and must needs have desires let these be your desiresTo melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To be wounded by your own understanding of loveAnd to bleed willingly and joyfully.

Love one another but make not a bond of loveLet it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each others cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous but let each one of you be alone Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music. Give your hearts but not into each others keeping. For only the hand of Life can contain your hearts. And stand together yet not too near together For the pillars of the temple stand apart And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each others shadow.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

Our God who art our winged self it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights which are thine into days which are thine also. We cannot ask thee for aught for thou knowest our needs before they are born in us Thou art our need and in giving us more of thyself thou givest us all.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.