I would not exchange the sorrows of my heart for the joys of the multitude. And I would not have the tears that sadness makes to flow from my every part turn into laughter. I would that my life remain a tear and a smile.
A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and another woman shall bear me.
The wolves prey upon the lambs in the darkness of the night, but the blood stains remain upon the stones in the valley until the dawn comes, and the sun reveals the crime to all.
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Love descends upon our souls by the will of God and not by the demand or the plea of the individual.
Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.
Let there be spaces in your togetherness.
I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts...
I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us.
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.
When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.
For the sight of the angry weather saddens my soul and the sight of the town, sitting like a bereaved mother beneath layers of ice, oppresses my heart.
You cannot laugh and be unkind at the same time.
And that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
For what is prayer but the expansion of your self into the living ether?
Your house shall be not an anchor but a mast It shall not be a glistening film that covers a wound, but an eyelid that guards the eye.
That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?
It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much.