I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

The real in us is silent; the acquired is talkative.

The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore.You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.But let there...

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

And if you would know God, be not therefore a solver of riddles.Rather look about you and you shall see Him playing with your children.And look into space; you shall see Him walking in the...

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth.It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in us that would turn our nights, which are...

For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair

Desire is half of life; indifference is half of death.

Nay, sorrow is the greater.”But I say unto you, they are inseparable.Together they come, and when one sits alone with you at your board, remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.

Euer Freund ist die Antwort auf eure Nöte.

A voice cannot carry the tongue and the lips that gave it wings. Alone must it seek the ether. And alone and without his nest shall the eagle fly across the sun.

That deepest thing, that recognition, that knowledge, that sense of kinship began the first time I saw you,and it is the same now – only a thousand times deeper and tenderer. I shall love you...

[I]n Wahrheit ist es das Leben, das dem Leben gibt – während ihr, die ihr euch als Gebende fühlt, nichts anderes seid als Zeugen.

Surely there is no greater gift to a man than that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

I came here to be for all and with all,and what I do today in my solitudewill be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.What I say now with one heartwill be said tomorrow by thousands of...

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Imagination sees the complete reality, – it is where past, present and future meet… Imagination is limited neither to the reality which is apparent – nor to one place. It lives everywhere. It is at...

There are those among you who seek the talkative through fear of being alone.The silence of aloneness reveals to their eyes their naked selves and they would escape.And there are those who talk, and without...

The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.To know the pain of too much tenderness.To...

Ihr redet, wenn ihr aufhört mit euren Gedanken in Frieden zu sein.

[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

Ihr seid gut, wenn ihr eins mit euch seid.

The Reality of The Other Person Lies Not In What He Reveals To You, But What He Cannot Reveal To You.Therefore, If You Would Understand Him, Listen Not To What He Says, But Rather To...

You give but little when you give of your possessions.It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit. For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and...

Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon your reason and your judgment wage war against your passion and your appetite.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.The teacher who walks in the shadow of the temple, among his followers, gives not of...

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

My house says to me, “Do not leave me, for here dwells your past.”And the road says to me, “Come and follow me, for I am your future.”And I say to both my house and...

Death changes nothing but the masks that cover our faces.

[W]enn der Austausch [Handel] nicht in Liebe und freundlicher Gerechtigkeit stattfindet, wird er bloß einige zur Gier und andere zum Hunger führen.

Darkness may hide the treesand the flowers from the eyesbut it cannot hidelove from the soul.

Die Einsicht eines Menschen verleiht ihre Flügel keinem anderen.

I am the lover’s gift; I am the wedding wreath;I am the memory of a moment of happiness;I am the last gift of the living to the dead;I am a part of joy and a...

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.

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.