there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out of you that you will know yourself for one, and begin to be wise.

If there be music in my reader, I would gladly wake it.

Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.

Faith is obedience, not compliance.

You will be dead so long as you refuse to die.

When I look like this into the blue sky, it seems so deep, so peaceful, so full of a mysterious tenderness, that I could lie for centuries and wait for the dawning of the face of God out of the awe-inspiring loving-kindness.