{"author":"Jacopone da Todi","author_id":"Jacopone+da+Todi","total_quotes":2,"quotes":[{"text":"What happens to the drop of wineThat you pour into the sea?Does it remain itself, unchanged?It is as if it never existed.So it is with the soul: Love drinks it in,It is united with Truth,Its old nature fades away,It is no longer master of itself.The soul wills and yet does not will:Its will belongs to Another.It has eyes only for this beauty;It no longer seeks to possess, as was its wont--It lacks the strength to possess such sweetness.The base of this highest of peaksIs founded on nichil,Shaped nothingness, made one with the Lord.","author":"Jacopone da Todi","tags":["emptiness","light","zen"],"id":6249,"author_id":"Jacopone+da+Todi"},{"text":"O happy wound, full of delight, He whom You wound Is joyous indeed.","author":"Jacopone da Todi","tags":["joy","love"],"id":83192,"author_id":"Jacopone+da+Todi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}