"Beauty is a thing of might and dread.Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us."

"He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy."

"The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master."

"The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To What He Does Not Say."

"But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you,So the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also."

"Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who say every sort of wicked thing about me because I sacrificed their friendship to gain my own soul. I left the dark paths of their duplicity and turned my eyes toward the light where there is salvation, truth, and justice. They have exiled me now from their society, yet I am content. Mankind only exiles the one whose large spirit rebels against injustice and tyranny. He who does not prefer exile to servility is not free in the true and necessary sense of freedom."

"Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and nights."

"I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy."

"If you can see only what light reveals and hear only what sound announces, then in truth you do not see nor do you hear."

"You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for the varied paths of religion are but the fingers of the loving hand of the Supreme Being, extended to all, offering completeness of spirit to all, anxious to receive all."

"I have a yearning for my beautiful country, and I love its people because of their misery. But if my people rose, simulated by plunder and motivated by what they call "patriotic spirit" to murder, and invaded my neighbour's country, then upon the committing of any human atrocity I would hate my people and my country."

"Could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy."

"I cannot tarry longer. The sea that calls all things unto her calls me."

"Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of his faith and his lovingness.The astronomer may spaeak to you of his understanding of space , but he cannot give you his understanding.The musician may sing to you of the rythem which is in all space , but he cannot give you the ear which arrests the rythem nor the voice that echoes it .And he who is versed in the science of numbers can tell of the regions of weight and measure , but he cannot conduct you thither .For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man ."

"I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts..."

"One hour devoted to mourning and lamenting theStolen equality of the weak is nobler than aCentury filled with greed and usurpation."

"I am forever walking upon these shores,Betwixt the sand and the foam,The high tide will erase my food prints,And the wind will blow away the foam,But the sea and the shore will remain forever."

"Ready am I to go, and my eagerness with sails full set awaits the wind.Only another breath will I breathe in this still air, only another loving look cast backward."

"Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return..... Forget not that I shall come back to you....A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me."

"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls, the most massive characters are seared with scars."

"Love one another, but make not a bond of love:Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls."

"In your winter you deny your spring."

"Shall the day of parting be the day of gathering?And shall it be said that my eve was in truth my dawn?"

"When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and dreams were space without measure."

"They say: 'If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.'I say: 'If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself."

"Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem."

"I have seen a face with a thousand countenances, and a face that was but a single countenance as if held in a mould. I have seen a face whose sheen I could look through to the ugliness beneath, and a face whose sheen I had to lift to see how beautiful it was. I have seen an old face much lined with nothing, and a smooth face in which all things were graven. I know faces, because I look through the fabric my own eye weaves, and behold the reality beneath."

"Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights and shadows in pairs that cling.And when the shadow fades and is no more, the light that lingers becomes a shadow to another light.And thus your freedom when it loses its fetters becomes itself the fetter of a greater freedom."

"To belittle, you have to be little."

"Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear,But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears.It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a win attached to a claw,But rather a garden forever in bloom and a flock of angels forever in flight.Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil.Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in the mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror."

"Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death."

"You make such a noise falling! You scatter all my winter dreams."

"The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul."

"He who is more mindful of one, loses the love and the faith of both."

"Beauty is that which attracts your soul, and that which loves to give and not to receive."

"Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness."

"Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do."

"Believing is a fine thing, but putting those beliefs into execution is a test of strength."

"Art thou like me, child of my darkest heart? And dost thou think my untamed thoughts and speak my vast language? "Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou revealest space and I reveal my soul."

"No human relation gives one possession in another-every two souls are absolutely different. In friendship or in love, the two side by side raise hands together to find what one cannot reach alone."

"Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets."

"Speak not of peoples and laws andKingdoms, for the whole earth isMy birthplace and all humans areMy brothers."

"An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind."

"Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potters oven?And is not the lute that soothes your spirits the very wood that was hollowed with knives?"

"Your daily life is your temple and your religion."

"We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side."

"Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness."

"And one of the elders of the city , said , speak to us of good and evil.And he answered :You are good in countless ways , and you are not evil when you are not good ."

"Wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving."