A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

For if you bake bread with indifference, you bake a bitter bread that feeds but half man's hunger.

When you kill a beast, say to him in your heart: ~By the same power that slays you, I too am slain, and I too shall be consumed. ~For the law that delivers you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. ~Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.

The first glance from the eyes of the beloved is like the spirit that moved upon the face of the waters, giving birth to heaven and earth.

Your body is the harp of your soul and it is yours to bring forth sweet music from it or confused sounds.

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure, then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor, into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.