I said to Life, I would hear Death speak. And Life raised her voice a little higher and said, You hear him now.
They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression. He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
The thirst of soul is sweeter than the wine of material things, and the fear of spirit is dearer than the security of the body.
For love is sufficient unto love.
I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.
Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.
We are the sons of Sorrow; we are the poets and the prophets and the musicians.
To know the pain of too much tenderness
Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.
That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.
You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life.
It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Seek not the depths of your knowledge with staff or sounding line. For self is a sea boundless and measureless.
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.
Education sows not seeds in you, but makes your seeds grow.
Your body is the harp of the soul.
Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.
And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.
You are good when you are fully awake in your speech, Yet you are not evil when you sleep while your tongue staggers without purpose. And even stumbling speech may strengthen a weak tongue.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
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