Hello, sun in my face. Hello, you who make the morning and spread it over the fields and into the faces of the tulips and the nodding...

When death comes like the hungry bear in autumn; when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse to buy me, and snaps...

Above the mountains the geese turn into the light again painting their black silhouettes on an open sky. Sometimes everything has to...

I was sad one day and went for a walk; I sat in a field. A rabbit noticed my condition and came near. It often does not take more than...

The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though...

All day long a little burro labors, sometimes with heavy loads on her back and sometimes just with worries about things that bother only...

In spring the blue azures bow down at the edges of shallow puddles to drink the black rain water. Then they rise and float away into the...

There's a thread you follow. It goes among things that change. But it doesn't change. People wonder about what you are pursuing. you have...

You suppose you are the trouble but you are the cure You suppose that you are the lock on the door but you are the key that opens it It's...

To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour. This is...

OH, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the...

There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your...

After rain after many days without rain, it stays cool, private and cleansed, under the trees, and the dampness there, married now to...

This is the poem I have been reading for many years on the Winter Solstice. I learned it by heart when I was a child, and I still love...

i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything...

Don’t run around this world looking for a hole to hide in. There are wild beasts in every cave! If you live with mice, the cat claws will...

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one...

When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such...

Now has come, an easy time. I let it roll. There is a lake somewhere so blue and far nobody owns it. A wind comes by and a willow listens...

Are you looking for me? I am in the next seat. My shoulder is against yours. you will not find me in the stupas, not in Indian shrine...