10 Quotes by John Balkh

Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open?

If you are irritated by every rub, how will you be polished?

You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry? The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.

Anyone who genuinely and consistently with both hands looks for something, will find it.

There is a way of breathing that’s a shame and a suffocation and there’s another way of expiring, a love breath, that lets you open infinitely.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquillity.

You sit here for days saying, This is strange business. You’re the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine. You’re some weird kind of gold that wants to stay melted in the furnace, so you won’t have to become coins.

Sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.

You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in the drop.