Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into your being,...

It takes two of us to discover truth: one to utter it and one to understand it.

Trees are poems that the earth writes upon the sky.

Thus with my lips have I denounced you, while my heart, bleeding within me, called you tender names.It was love lashed by its own self that spoke. It was pride half slain that fluttered in...

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper,That we may record our emptiness.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.

Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.These things move within you as lights...

My comrade, my companion”-for I would not have thee see my Hell. The flame would burn thy eyesight and the smoke would crowd thy nostrils. And I love my Hell too well to have thee...

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Die Vernunft ist, wenn sie allein waltet, eine einengende Kraft; und unbewacht ist die Leidenschaft eine Flamme, die bis zur Selbstzerstörung brennt.

I slept and I dreamed that life is all joy. I woke and I saw that life is all service. I served and I saw that service is joy.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Eure Kinder sind nicht eure Kinder. – Sie sind die Söhne und Töchter der Sehnsucht des Lebens nach sich selber.

You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good, you are only loitering and sluggard.

Ihr gebt nur wenig, wenn ihr von eurem Besitz gebt. – Erst wenn ihr von euch selber gebt, gebt ihr wahrhaft.

You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his...

I have met the soul walking upon my path.”For the soul walks upon all paths.The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed.The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of...

How shall we distinguish that whichis good in pleasure from that which is not good?”Go to your fields and your gardens, and you shall learn that it is thepleasure of the bee to gather honey...

The lust for comfort kills the passions of the soul.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy

Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.You...

A sense of humour is a sense of proportion.

They say: ‘If a man knew himself,he would know all mankind.’I say: ‘If a man loved mankind,he would know something of himself.

I AM IGNORANT of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honor and my reward.

I love you, my brother, whoever you are – whether you worship in a church, kneel in your temple, or pray in your mosque. You and I are children of one faith, for the diverse...

At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom,Even as slaves humble themselves before a tyrant and praise him though he slays them.Ay, in the...

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Euer Haus ist euer größerer Körper.

Life is not only merriment,It is desire and determination.

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence.

Behind the veil of each night, there is a smiling dawn.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill? Seek him always with hours to live.For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.And in th sweetness...

Tus hijos no son tus hijos son hijos e hijas de la vida deseosa de si misma. No vienen de ti, sino a través de ti y aunque estén contigo no te pertenecen. Puedes darles...

An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind.

Für den Freigebigen ist die Suche nach einem, der empfangen soll, eine größere Freude als das Geben.

Who are you that men should rend their bosom and unveil their pride, that you may see their worth naked and their pride unabashed?See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver, and an...

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

You are my brother and I love you. I love you worshipping in your church, kneeling in your temple, and praying in your mosque. You and I and all are children of one religion, for...

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