Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.
Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.
Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.
No permanence is ours, we are a wave that flows to fit whatever form it finds.
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.
Look: We hate nothing that exists, not even death, suffering and dying, does not horrify our souls, as long as we learn more deeply to love.
Every experience has its element of magic.
They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.
A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much we can endure.
Only within yourself exists the other reality for which you long. I can give you nothing that has not already its being within yourself. I can throw open to you no picture gallery but your own soul.
Despair is the result of each earnest attempt to go through life with virtue, justice and understanding, and to fulfill their requirements. Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.
The sacred sense of beyond, of timelessness, of a world which had an eternal value and the substance of which was divine had been given back to me today by this friend of mine who taught me dancing.
When you like someone, you like them in spite of their faults. When you love someone, you love them with their faults.
Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends.