Even while the Earth sleeps we travel.
Am I less man because I believe in a greater man?
You hate Jesus because someone from the North Country said He was the Son of God. But you hate one another because each of you deems himself too great to be the brother of the next man.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. Doubt is a foundling unhappy and astray, and though his own mother who gave him birth should find him and enfold him, he would withdraw in caution and in fear.
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.
Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
The envier praises me unknowingly.
Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
I learnt silence from the talkative.
Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.
When a man’s hand touches the hand of a woman, they both touch the heart of eternity.
They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish.
Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.
Now let us play hide and seek. Should you hide in my heart it would not be difficult to find you. But should you hide behind your own shell, then it would be useless for anyone to seek you.
Your joy can fill you only as deeply as your sorrow has carved you.
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.
Love is a gracious host to his guests though to the unbidden his house is a mirage and a mockery.
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than that you cut your wings with your own hands and suffer your soul to crawl like an insect upon the earth?
I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am in peace.