"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.

Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild on the mountainside?

Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward.

Very few of us are capable of being Free Thinkers, needing neither to adore nor to insult God, the insult often being an act of faith more profound than adoration.

To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment.

The wise expect nothing, hope for nothing, thus avoiding all disappointment and anxiety.