"Let me keep your footprints in my heart."
203.
THE day, with the noise of this little earth, drowns the silence of all worlds.
204.
THE song feels the infinite in the air, the picture in the earth, the poem in the air and the earth; For its words have meaning that walks and music that soars.
205.
WHEN the sun goes down to the West, the East of his morning stands before him in silence.
206.
LET me not put myself wrongly to my world and set it against me.
207.
PRAISE shames me, for I secretly beg for it.
208.
LET my doing nothing when I have nothing to do become untroubled in its depth of peace like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
209.
MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.
210.
THE best does not come alone. It comes with the company of the all.
211.
GOD's right hand is gentle, but terrible is his left hand.
212.
MY evening came among the alien trees and spoke in a language which my morning stars did not know.
213.
NIGHT'S darkness is a bag that bursts with the gold of the dawn.
214.
OUR desire lends the colours of the rainbow to the mere mists and vapours of life.
215.
GOD waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands.
216.
MY sad thoughts tease me asking me their own names.
217.
THE service of the fruit is precious, the service of the flower is sweet, but let my service be the service of the leaves in its shade of humble devotion.
218.
MY heart has spread its sails to the idle winds for the shadowy island of Anywhere.
219.
MEN are cruel, but Man is kind.
220.
MAKE me thy cup and let my fulness be for thee and for thine.
221.
THE storm is like the cry of some god in pain whose love the earth refuses.
222.
THE world does not leak because death is not a crack.
223.
LIFE has become richer by the love that has been lost.
224.
MY friend, your great heart shone with the sunrise of the East like the snowy summit of a lonely hill in the dawn.
225.
THE fountain of death makes the still water of life play.
226.
THOSE who have everything but thee, my God, laugh at those who have nothing but thyself.
227.
THE movement of life has its rest in its own music.
228.
KICKS only raise dust and not crops from the earth.
229.
OUR names are the light that glows on the sea waves at night and then dies without leaving its signature.
230.
LET him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.
231.
SET bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.
232.
THE same lotus of our clime blooms here in the alien water with the same sweetness, under another name.
233.
IN heart's perspective the distance looms large.
234.
THE moon has her light all over the sky, her dark spots to herself.
235.
DO not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a new-born child that has no name.
236.
SMOKE boasts to the sky, and Ashes to the earth, that they are brothers to the fire.
237.
THE raindrop whispered to the jasmine, "Keep me in your heart for ever."
The jasmine sighed, "Alas," and dropped to the ground.
238.
TIMID thoughts, do not be afraid of me.
I am a poet.
239.
THE dim silence of my mind seems filled with crickets' chirp-the grey twilight of sound.
240.
ROCKETS, your insult to the stars follows yourself back to the earth.
241.
THOU hast led me through my crowded travels of the day to my evening's loneliness.
I wait for its meaning through the stillness of the night.
242.
THIS life is the crossing of a sea, where we meet in the same narrow ship.
In death we reach the shore and go to our different worlds.
243.
THE stream of truth flows through its channels of mistakes.
244.
MY heart is homesick to-day for the one sweet hour across the sea of time.
245.
THE bird-song is the echo of the morning light back from the earth.
246.
"ARE you too proud to kiss me?" the morning light asks the buttercup.
247.
"HOW may I sing to thee and worship, O Sun?" asked the little flower.
"By the simple silence of thy purity," answered the sun.
248.
MAN is worse than an animal when he is an animal.
249.
DARK clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.