Love must neither beg nor demand. Love must be strong enough to find certainty within itself. It then cease to be moved and becomes the mover.

You learned people and artists have, no doubt, all sorts of superior things in your heads; but you're human beings like the rest of us, and we, too, have our dreams and fancies.

But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls

One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate souls because the flame of their fervor cannot always be seen.