I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.

Now is the time to understand That all your ideas of right and wrong Were just a child's training wheelsTo be laid aside When you finally live With veracity And love.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

When you can make others laugh with jokes that belittle no one and your words always unite, Hafiz will vote for you to be God.

The small man builds cages for everyone he knows While the sage, who has to duck his head when the moon is low, Keeps dropping keys all night long For the beautiful rowdy prisoners.

I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, 'love lifts me.'

Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.