The Teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
Love… it surrounds every being and extends slowly to embrace all that shall be.
Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever.
And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.
Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.