Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf.
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy.
Rest in reason. Move in Passion.
There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind.
Even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each one of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.
Love is a magic ray emitted from the burning core of the soul and illuminating the surrounding earth. It enables us to perceive life as a beautiful dream between one awakening and another.
To belittle, you have to be little.
He that tries to seize an opportunity after it has passed him by is like one who sees it approach but will not go to meet it.
Let your bending in the Archer’s hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable.
Follow your heart. Your heart is the right guide in everything big. Mine is so limited. What you want to do is determined by that divine element that is in each of us.