Dig anywhere in the earth and you will find a treasure, only you must dig with the faith of a peasant.

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:Your seeds shall live in my body,And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,And your fragrance shall be...

Know, therefore, that from the greater silence I shall return….. Forget not that I shall come back to you….A little while, a moment of rest upon the wind, and anohter woman shall bear me.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Many of us spend our whole lives running from feeling with the mistaken belief that you can not bear the pain. But you have already borne the pain. What you have not done is feel...

Seven times have I despised my soul: The sixth time when she despised the ugliness of a face, and knew not that it was one of her own masks.

you are good when you strive to give of yourself.

Bedauern ist die Trübung des Geistes und nicht seine Läuterung.

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between...

If you reveal your secrets to the wind,you should not blame the wind forrevealing them to the trees.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God’s knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

And my heart bled within me; for you can only be free when even the desire of seeking freedom becomes a harness to you, and when you cease to speak of freedom as a goal...

Yesterday was a beautiful tune on the lips of life and today is a silent secret.

Sicher gibt es kein größeres Geschenk für einen Menschen als das, was all seine Ziele zu brennenden Lippen und alles Leben zu einem Brunnen macht.

And then a scholar said, “Speak of talking.” And he answered, saying: “And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion...

When love beckons to you, follow him,Though his ways are hard and steep.And When his wings enfold you yield to him,Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.And When he speaks to you...

Wenn [der Lehrer] wirklich weise ist, fordert er euch nicht auf, ins Haus seiner Weisheit einzutreten, sondern führt euch an die Schwelle eures eigenen Geistes.

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.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

I have come to learn about things that intrigue people through their strangeness. But barley did I find myself in you presence than I understood that life is none other than the different manifestations of...

Life is an island in an ocean of solitude and seclusion.Life is an island, rocks are its desires, trees its dreams, and flowers its loneliness, and it is in the middle of an ocean of...

There must be something strangely sacred in salt. It is in our tears and in the sea.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, asthe mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

Yea, we are twin brothers, O, Night; for thou revealest space and I reveal my soul.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

[Wer fällt] fällt für die vor ihm, die obgleich schneller und sicherer im Schritt, den Stein des Anstoßes nicht entfernten.

Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

Der Lehrer […] gibt nicht von seiner Weisheit, sondern eher von seinem Glauben und seiner Liebe.

But you who walk facing the sun, what images drawn on the earth can hold you? You who travel with the wind, what weathervane shall direct your course? What man’s law shall bind you if...

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

When you see a man led to prison say in your heart, “Mayhap he is escaping from a narrower prison.” And when you see a man drunken say in your heart, “Mayhap he sought escape...

You are good when you walk to your goal firmly and with bold steps.Yet you are not evil when you go thither limping.For those who limp go not backwards.But you who are strong and swift,...

He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering.

Je tiefer sich das Leid in euer Sein eingräbt, desto mehr Freude könnt ihr fassen.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

Some believe that art is the imitation of nature; in fact, nature is so sublime that it cannot be imitated. However noble it may be, art cannot perform a single one of the miracles of...

Then said a teacher , speak to us of teaching . And he said :The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple among his followers gives not of his wisdom but rather of...

There is a space between man’s imagination and man’s attainment that may only be traversed by his longing.

Work is love made visible. And if you can’t work with love, but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take...

You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link.This is but half the truth.You are also as strong as your strongest link.To measure you by your smallest...

When you were a wandering desire in the mist, I too was there, a wandering desire. Then we sought one another, and out of our eagerness dreams were born. And dreams were time limitless, and...

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

You may forget the one with whom you have laughed, but never the one with whom you have wept.

We are all like the bright moon, we still have our darker side.

When love beckons to you follow him, Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him, Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. And when...