5 Quotes by Daniel Ladinsky

Always from the child's hand the sword should be removedI think every nation is an infant.

A plague is spread by onewho cannot tellthe truth.

Show me where it hurts, God said, and every cell in my body burst into tears before His tender eyes. He has repaid me though for all my suffering in a way I never wanted: The sun is now in homage to my face, because it knows I have seen God. But that was not His payment. The soul cannot describe His gift. I just spoke about the sun like that because I like beautiful words, and because it is true: Creation is in homage to us.

In a vision I heard this clearly whispered: Study those who sing the most, but are free of criticism and praise. Following this advice, things turned out just as I suspected: I started spending more time with birds.

There is a courageous dying, it is called effacement. That holy death unfurls our spirit’s wings and allows us to embrace God even as we stand on the earth.