A Commentary on Inner Burning

1. Restlessness within... Before, I wasn't even there inside myself... Now I see, you aren't either...

2. Don't give me farewell with a smile. Perhaps in that very happiness I'll spend a lifetime weeping at your door.

3. If you stood holding a flower in one hand and a cup of poison in the other, I would take the poison. I have no habit of taking flowers.

4. How will you call me when I'm gone? ...Speak... Make mistakes... I'll set them right.

5. I've been flowing like a river in motion for so long now.
There is no name to stopping, no obligation to it.

6. You've brought me to that threshold of hatred where a person turns to stone. I cannot help but thank you for it.

7. I was never meant for sale, never have been. But now it seems, had I only sold myself to another sooner, at least today I wouldn't have to sell myself to you.

8. Your indifference wounds me far more than any enemy's mockery.

9. Consciousness and love cannot exist together. Whoever can love without losing their senses—I call them nothing but a fraud.

10. You could hurt me so deeply only because I'm like the ocean—I can carry away everything, hold it all.

11. I speak with my God quite often. He asks me: him, or you? I smile. Whose story shall I tell? I've never truly seen God, never truly seen you. In my eyes, you're both the same.

12. I've grown so accustomed to suffering through suffering that without it I feel only unease.