Time is endless in thy hands, my lord. There is none to count thy minutes. Days and nights pass and ages bloom and fade like flowers. Thou knowest how to wait... At the end of the day I hasten in fear lest thy gate be shut; but I find that yet there is time.
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What is the greatest kind of love? Great love does not flow with tears. Rather, it burns in the great Fire of Heaven. In this Fire it flows and flows swiftly yet all the while it remains in itself in a very great stillness.