An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love.
Spiritual awakening is the most essential thing in man's life, and it is the sole purpose of being. Is not civilization, in all its tragic forms, a supreme motive for spiritual awakening?
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.
Only once have I been made mute. It was when a man asked me, 'Who are you?'
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
A traveller I am, and a navigator, and everyday I discover a new region within my soul.
When I planted my pain in the field of patience it bore fruit of happiness.
How distant I am from people when I am with them, and how close when they are far away.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
All men love you for themselves. I love you for yourself.
Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.
In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
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.
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
You often say, "I would give, but only to the deserving." The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Love is not without its flaws. The stronger the love, the more it tests you. Compassion and empathy will make true love persist.
The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.
That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now - only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you to eternity. I loved you long before we met in this flesh. I knew that when I first saw you. It was destiny. We are together like this and nothing can shake us apart.
Behind the veil of each night, there is a smilling dawn.
I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.
Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.
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